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    Dec 11, 2007, 12:53 PM
    Electric or gas, which is a cheaper heating utility
    Which would be more cost effective heating a space with gas heat or electric heat. I'm not asking for heat pump information, just heating element.
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    Dec 11, 2007, 02:23 PM
    Usually it is cheaper to heat by gas; 1 kw of electric would produce about 3415 BTU(resistance heat), 1 therm (ft3) of gas would get 100K btu( but at 80% efficiency it is 80K). Don't know what your gas and electric rate are; you could do the math from here !
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