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Originally Posted by Ricky Shaw
Cole Robbie is obviously a genius.
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As a narcissist, I am incapable of disagreeing. That doesn't make either one of us correct, though.
Mass is great, but it has its own difficulties. The heat released will be at its max right when the sun sets, and then slowly decrease over the night. The coldest part of the night is 4-6 am or so, and at that time, the mass is releasing its lowest level of heat.
Let's say the night got down into the 30s. Your jugs of water might be in the 40s at sunrise. Let's also say your electric heat is set at 60; and furthermore, for the sake of this hypothetical, it's a cloudy morning. Say you had two greenhouses that you wanted to heat to 60 degrees. One was empty, and the other had a wall of water jugs at the temp of 40 degrees. Which one would take longer to heat?
Cold mass works against heat, just like the old-time iceboxes used to work before there were refrigerators. If you put food in an insulated box with a big chunk of ice, then your food will stay cold.