Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than on any place on the face of the earth? Well, perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove.

My Cousin Vinny came to mind.

Big Heat was purring in the bathroom over the weekend cold snap.  Just stored it, here it is 60F at 4am.  The little box figured that out last night and cut its duty cycle by 75%.  It spent winters from 90-07 in the garage keeping the washer pipes from freezing.

I can't talk with my relatives either, same reason.  As Higgins said in My Fair Lady, stick to the weather and everybody's health.  Appalling degree of buying the bullshit and drinking the koolaid.  And these are 'educated' people, which only makes it all the worse.

By all means see Vinny.  Not the cable version either.  It's as smart as Neil Simon was in his day.  I won't tell you anything that happens and advise against reading the Wiki or IMDB summaries.  The story does a top job of telling  itself.  The female lead won Best Actress for it.

Regarding those 1500 W ...

While I realize that some people are simply incapable of rational thought, I can attest that all heaters do not work the same, no matter what level of power is listed on the box.  My guess is that some models are not actually putting out what they say. That would very much explain why two separate ‘1500 W’ heaters would heat a room differently.

My other guess is that some models cycle ineffectively, so that there is far more off time than on time.

My other guess is that the quality of the fan might affect the distribution of the heat, especially on thermostat models that register plenty of warmth around the unit, while none of it is distributed more than a foot away.

Then again, maybe it’s all just perception and misperception. 

Another thing I’ve often wondered, is whether small units with a good fan, by the nature of their design, are essentially funneling the heat into such a compact space that it blows much hotter on the skin than the broadly dissipated air from a larger unit.  I can’t remember enough of my physics class to say whether could actually be the case.