Vermiculite and (a) salt (calcium choride)

[jack]

Light on details, but sounds something like a simpler version of zeolite storage: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/heating-vermiculite-potting-plants-heat-storage-summer-sun-winter-swansea-a7234406.html

[TerryE]

To be honest, this type of article irritates me extremely.  As you say: light on detail.  When I read something like this, my immediate reaction is that this was triggered by a press release accompanying a published paper, so I want to read the paper is open access -- but nothing, no references just a couple of defending comments by Seaniekc who is, I suspect, one of the authors.  He references a primary author Yuri Aristov and Google Scholar give a few interesting hits for "Vermiculite CaCl2 Aristov"