Electric heating types

[Neuling]

Funny, I have never seen a baseboard heater here It makes so much sense to place the heater down at the floor, but nobody does, mine sits just underneath the ceiling

Did you have to connect your Trane to the exterior somehow? Or is it a mobile stand-alone device without external ducts etc.? I am not allowed to install anything...

I wish people would start to build those new zero-energy homes on a large scale. They even work in places like Germany, so it should be child's play in southern Europe.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by NCN

It was less expensive than some of the other types.

At this point it's going to be the most expensive way to heat your home using standard electric just about everywhere, the least efficient and the most polluting because the efficiency from the source is so small. There's a lot of wasted energy before it gets to your house. A lot of people have the misconception that electric is "clean" compared to a household that is directly burning a fuel like oil, natural gas or even coal for that matter but that is not the case.

Since the heat pump is so much more efficient you'll save money over standard electric and many other sources but I'd be leery about that with this energy bill looming.