Now that it is getting colder the ads for the miracle heaters are coming out again. They promise that their highly efficient heaters can save you 50-60% on your heating bills but do these wonders of Amish technology really work?
It is true that these heaters are highly efficient. This is because all electrical heaters are approximately 100% efficient. Any 1500 watt heater will produce roughly 5100 btus. The ads are telling the truth here but they are being misleading.
Since electric heat is generally 3-5 times as expensive as other forms of heat it is unlikely they will save you money on your heating bill. One possible way they could save you money is if you turned your furnace down and used a heater to keep the area you are in at a comfortable temperature. I did this a couple years ago and it did save me some money. I just used a $20 ceramic heater though. There is no need to spend several hundred dollars on a heater to do this. Again the ads are misleading.
Check out these Amazon affiliate links. You can get a $20 heater
or a $400 heater.
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You are a god among men! I’m completely serious, I was looking to buy one of these for the savings. It was close to $300. But I figured it was worth it if we could save that much. I’ll just leave the money in the heating fund! Looks like Christmas came early for me in the form of this article!!!
Thank you
PS-I killed my blog and had to restart it. UGH!!!
SonyaAnn – It is good to see you are back. Hope you can get your blog restored. I guess you didn’t have any kind of backup for the blog? I accidentally deleted this blog a couple years ago but I had online backup so I was able to restore it. Just lost a few days of comments. It is harder to backup a Blogger blog than a WordPress blog but it is possible, I would suggest finding a way to backup the blog from now on.