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Old 10-13-2012, 11:47 AM   #7 (permalink)
Ryland
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I suspect that a heat pump is out of the question as a space heater, but if it's not then it is by far your best option.
Like Frank I use work lights to heat from time to time as well because the heat from them is radiant heat, it's not heating the air, heating air to heat objects is dumb!
With the smoking ban in bars here there are a number of bars that have out side areas with a few infrared shop heaters on timers, you give the timer a twist and it lights up orange, warming the people up who are next to them, they are still breathing in cold air, but it feels like you are standing in front of a fire, your face and hand get toasty, objects get warm but the air hardly heats up, to do the same thing heating air you would need a pretty good sized furnace.
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