Thermal heat is easy to store -water and masonry or stone is an excellent thermal mass.

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He used this stone to knock a hole through the plaster, lathing, and masonry of the supposed sky, and when the stone rattled off into emptiness on the other side he reached up into the hole and pulled himself through.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat