"X" wrote in message ...
I was looking through a copy of a woodworking magazine when I found an
ad for
hydro-sil electric heaters. My house has electric heat, but I don't
use it, and installed gas heat for the primary heat source. Now the
price of natural gas is going up. Has anyone bought/installed the
hydro-sil electric heaters? On their web site they claim to have an
energy-star rating with up to a 50% reduction in heating cost. I'm in
Michigan, so it's going to get very cold soon...

This used to be easy to answer when the gas was so much cheaper, but energy
is getting expensive in any form.

Electric heat is 100% efficient. Do the comparisons with the cost of
electric at the present rate per Kw versus the gas at the efficiency rating
for your heater.

1000 watts equals the same at 3412 Btu from the gas.

Any electric heater should do the same job. What makes the Hydro-sil so
much better? If it is meant to be located on the window sill line, it will
reduce drafts and perhaps make you feel a bit warmer at a given temperature,
but a Btu is a Btu.
Ed

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