Baseboard ELECTRIC heat

[davsel]

Electric heat is efficient only in the sense that 100% of the electricity used is turned into heat. It is also very expensive.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/electri...per-71384.html

As of March 2013, it costs $34.57 to generate one million BTUs of heat using electric baseboard heating, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This same million BTUs costs $14.39 using an electric heat pump, or $7.33 via a standard gas furnace.

[Wulf202]

Electric heat is efficient only in the sense that 100% of the electricity used is turned into heat. It is also very expensive.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/electri...per-71384.html

Those numbers are on alot of assumed things. Costs. Efficiency. Ambient temps all play a huge factor. Also the fact that they don't take into account the electric bill that heat pumps and gas furnaces need to circulate said air.

Not to mention equipment costs, emergency break downs. Install. Repair. Retrofit. The mild increased risk of co poisoning to the occupants. There's alot to weigh

For example my uncles place is in the cheapest electric prices in the country. 1/7th of what we pay here.