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Originally Posted by mlh
All electric resistance heaters are 100% efficient no matter how they heat. If they heat air or water then use that to heat the room they are 100% efficient. Unless they have a fan or some other way to distribute the heat then they are less than 100% efficient. 100% efficient means you get $1 worth of heat for $1 of electricity. Heat pumps multiply the efficiency. You get more than a dollars worth of heat for every dollars worth of electricity.
Lynwood
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We have a heat pump to heat and cool our stick and brick home. It is a ground source unit with a loop under the ground.