Space heaters are one of the most expensive methods. Check the power consumption, they are hungry things.
Space heaters are the way to go.
It’s the difference between paying $50 and $5 more per month.
butterflyattack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
chitak166@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My electric bill says otherwise.
As always, I encourage people to see for themselves rather than trusting strangers on the internet.
psud@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The only time space heaters work well is when you avoid heating the whole house, and instead heat only a room
chitak166@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No shit.
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 5 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.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 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
chitak166@lemmy.world 5 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.
Jazsta@lemmy.world 5 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.
psud@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Almost. Some are better at heating people, others are better at heating air
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 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?
chitak166@lemmy.world 5 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.