eli5: If most electronic appliances’ efficiency losses are through heat, does that mean that electric heaters are 100% efficient?

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Many thanks for your input everyone!

Just to clarify, I don’t want to take into account the method of generating electricity or shipping it to the home, or the relative costs of gas and electricity. I just want to look at the heater itself! i.e. does 1500W of input into a heater produce 1500W of heat, for example? Or are there other losses I haven’t thought of. Heat pumps are off-topic.

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To add to the answers, the literal only metric that matters with standard resistive heaters is the wattage. A fancy one might look nicer or have a better fan, but if they’re both 1500W, then the heat they produce is identical. Any claim to the contrary is marketing exploiting the ignorance of their consumers.