Thermal heat is easy to store -water and masonry or stone is an excellent thermal mass.
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The limestone used to build the 3rd century structure is being eroded by the elements and suffers particularly from frost-thaw - when water enters the stone then freezes and melts.
Infy has been trying to tap water from a stone, and surprised everyone by succeeding.
The game itself is a wonder, as it uses purposefully blocky textures and models, where players craft vast structures from elements like wood, stone, earth, water and fire.
Roosevelt is stark and elemental but also very lyrical in the careful dialogue it arranges between trees, stone, sky and water (and so well conceived and executed that Superstorm Sandy didn't leave a scratch).
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For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives but also in everything that does not live, drawn in sand, stone, and water.
The course is beautiful, a jaw dropper at every turn, starting with a classic parkland section, featuring lots of water, tons of beautiful stone bulkheading, and a middle section that climbs into high, barren fields overlooking the lake and the rest of the course with a pronounced links feel, before returning to the lake for dramatic finishing holes including, oddly, a long par-3 over the lake for eighteen.
He used this cave as a bed and a small stone well for his water.
An open hatch in the polished stone floor leads down to the water beneath and a small natural pool.
His water had dried up, and he rolled around in the stone bed of his trough, making that long sad sound that tigers make.
The most famous spring is Cleopatra's Bath, which has crystal-clear natural spring water that gurgles up into a large stone pool, and is a popular bathing spot for locals.
The log cabin-style main home features a stone wood-burning fireplace, hardwood floors and extensive water and mountain views.
They wanted to build a Jefferson-influenced minimansion with a stone and brick patchwork driveway and formal gardens sloping to the water.
This is a cyberspace equivalent of the fairytale about stone soup, in which two men set up a big pot full of water over a fire in a town square, drop in a stone, and start stirring.
In London, musician and activist Peter Gabriel spoke about water as a human right before British singer Joss Stone performed.
Like water over a stone, they can slowly but steadily wear away some of the mistrust and acrimony.
Deep into the autumn, every package or can I open takes me back to conversations around the cookhouse's huge stone fireplace, to wind rustling through alders, and sun-spangled blue-green water, to the promise of adventure every morning.
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