Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside.

• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are you smoking? Space heaters gulp down electricity with the smallest ones running at hundreds of watts and standard ones around 1-2 kilowatts. The only ways a space heater is more efficient is if either you’re spending a shitton of energy heating rooms you aren’t in or if your homes heating system is in bad need of repair/replacement

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  • chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, my electric bill went up a negligible amount and I keep the space heater running pretty much all the time.

    Maybe you bought a shitty one or you’re getting a shitty deal for your electricity.

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    • Jazsta@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All space heaters operate at the same efficiency since they convert electricity to heat via resistance. You may have a small one and low electricity rates in your area to see a negligible change. Or maybe other uses went down and masked the increase from the space heater usage.

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      • psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Almost. Some are better at heating people, others are better at heating air

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bruh I don’t think you understand how electricity consumption works.

      A space heater will pull a given wattage, say 1000 watts for a pretty common one. Electric heaters are 100% efficient meaning 100% of the energy going in is converted to heat, so running that 1000 watt space heater for 1 hour will consume 1000 watt-hours (or 1 kilowatt hour) and heat the space by exactly 1000 watts or 1 kilowatt (kilo meaning thousand)

      Plugging this into a electric bill calculator, at a common $0.15/kWh running that 1000 watt space heater 24/7 will cost about $100 per month

      If your space heater is so insanely awesome, please do tell me, what’s your electric rate and the wattage of the heater?

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      • chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bruh, I don’t think you understand that heating a room is cheaper than heating your whole house.

        My electric bill is ~$160 when running the central heater. It’s ~$80 when I run my space heater.

        As always, I encourage people to see for themselves rather than trusting strangers on the internet.

        Experience is better than theory, every time.

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• butterflyattack@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Space heaters are one of the most expensive methods. Check the power consumption, they are hungry things.

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  • chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My electric bill says otherwise.

    As always, I encourage people to see for themselves rather than trusting strangers on the internet.

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• psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only time space heaters work well is when you avoid heating the whole house, and instead heat only a room

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  • chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No shit.

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• agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You don’t exactly understand heat pumps, do you?

  A space heater has an efficiency of close to 100%, heat pumps have at worst 100% and at best somewhere between 300 and 500%. Granted, in -35C environments, it’s probably very close to 100%, but that’s the absolute worst case, and an anomaly even in Finland.

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