If you disregard heat pumps, do all devices which consume electricity produce heat equally? For example, would a basic portable 600 watt electric resistive heater produce the same heat output as (100watt TV+100watt computer+200watt crock pot+100watt lightbulb+100watt electric motor) ? If you put the dedicated heater in one insulated test room and the other electrical devices in a duplicate room would both rooms stay at the same ambient temperature? Or do some electrical devices consume power without producing heat? From a frugal point of view, if you are trying to keep one room in a large house warm can you save some money by concentrating all your electronic devices (assuming you'd be using them anyway) in that room instead of running the electric heater?
November 16, 2018 at 06:59AM
