It is nice if you live in a small town or the middle of nowhere to have resistive heating. There aren’t any gas lines running out there to provide your home with a constant stream of gas, so if you want a gas powered solution, you end up having to have a pig (it’s this gas tank thing) outside your home, and you have to pay to have LP trucked out to fill it up many times a winter, and if you forget to check the pig and run out of gas, your family gets cold, and then you have to pay extra to get the truck to come quickly.
Meanwhile resistive heating uses the power lines that are run pretty much everywhere, and you pay monthly with your power bill, instead of incurring a larger charge for a longer period of time all at once.
But also, and I don’t know if this is true or not, so don’t quote me, heat pumps don’t work if it is too cold outside, and a lot of the time when it is winter, it is very cold outside.
Basically, resistive heating has its place. As for running calculations to create heat, I’m not sure if that’s effective on its own, I feel like you’d need a space heater or two to kickstart your way to having a warm home if the temperature changes suddenly, but apart from that the idea seems pretty sound.
It is nice if you live in a small town or the middle of nowhere to have resistive heating. There aren’t any gas lines running out there to provide your home with a constant stream of gas, so if you want a gas powered solution, you end up having to have a pig (it’s this gas tank thing) outside your home, and you have to pay to have LP trucked out to fill it up many times a winter, and if you forget to check the pig and run out of gas, your family gets cold, and then you have to pay extra to get the truck to come quickly.
Meanwhile resistive heating uses the power lines that are run pretty much everywhere, and you pay monthly with your power bill, instead of incurring a larger charge for a longer period of time all at once.
But also, and I don’t know if this is true or not, so don’t quote me, heat pumps don’t work if it is too cold outside, and a lot of the time when it is winter, it is very cold outside.
Basically, resistive heating has its place. As for running calculations to create heat, I’m not sure if that’s effective on its own, I feel like you’d need a space heater or two to kickstart your way to having a warm home if the temperature changes suddenly, but apart from that the idea seems pretty sound.