Ok I get that some heater are more efficient at heating an area, person heater over space heater etc.
But sometimes
The efficiency gets quoted. And other than losing energy at heat (which seems fine) how else do they lose energy?
In: 30
Oddly enough, heat pumps can hit 300% efficiency, as in turning one watt hour of electricity into three watt hours of heat. They do that by moving heat instead of generating heat, so a purely radiant electric heater with near 100% efficiency wouldn’t be close to as efficient as a good heat pump.
edit: yes, I realize that this is “technically imprecise”, but this is ELI5, not ELI20, and technical, precise explanations confuse more often than enlighten
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