Hi, you might be thinking that electric heaters dry the air more than other types of heaters, and you would be wrong. How did that mindset even come to be? Who started this nonsense? Because it is nonsense unless it is not for a good reason that i couldn't comprehend just to be clear, an electric heater is just a resistive piece of wire that heats up when electricity passes through action. You can help me comprehend in the comments, if you think i'm wrong and you're, not afraid of me, making a video ridiculing your wrong reasons. Go ahead, leave a comment, i'm just okay, of course, i don't really think there is a good reason, but who knows? I may learn something so let me know, and we can all learn a ton of math science and computing from my sponsor brilliance through their highly interactive courses, follow my link, brilliant.org electroboom and start learning.

Now back to electric heaters, removing humidity some of you may say. We didn't think like that to start with. Well, i have seen at least four people telling me that two contractors told me that i'm better off not having electric baseboard heaters because they dry air more and then two random friends. First time i heard it i was like i am hit by new information right away.

I asked myself, but where would the humidity go after which i confronted the person who provided the information anyway? If you think an electric heater dries air, more then ask yourselves: where would the air moisture content go? Does electricity make it disappear? No, would it somehow suck the moisture out of the air, how you might say? Well, maybe water vapor condenses more on an electric heater compared to other heaters and that's how more moisture is removed from the air in which universe, water vapor condenses on a hot surface um. I don't always get angry. Oh no wait. I do.

I have also heard this argument that maybe electrolysis breaks the water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. Really, if you recall for electrolysis, we need a continuous body of water and two electrodes with high enough voltage difference to break the water molecule. Well, maybe not a voltage that high not a continuous heater wire with a molecule or drop of water on it wow, even if that was true. Wouldn't that fill your room with explosive h2 and o2 gases, you would turn on your light and dang it.

I knew i shouldn't have used an electric heater. No none of these happen, so it's just a false misconception created by the big mama corporation. Yes, i bet it's one of those. Lies parents tell their kids to stop them from doing something like maybe electricity was expensive and they preferred burning wood.

I remember when i was a kid i would remove crust of breads and someone told me if i wasted them. They would turn into snakes and hunt me in my dreams, so i kept eating the crusts, but those snakes never stopped hunting. My dreams. Let me know in the comments what lies you were told as kids to make you change your behavior.

I have a list of my own. I don't know why some people assume kids can't handle the truth and lying to them is the best way to go. Ok, now that we established the fact that electric heaters don't directly make the air moisture disappear, let me tell you why a warmer closed space is drier in a closed room with a certain air moisture content. If you warm up the air, the moisture content doesn't change, but the air's capacity to hold moisture increases because it's warmer, so it tries harder to vaporize any humidity.

It can find. So, with the same moisture content, a warmer air will suck the moisture out of your skin and you will feel drier. That's why there's something called relative humidity that depends on the air pressure and temperature and moisture content and stuff. A hundred percent relative humidity doesn't mean that you are swimming in water.

It means that the air is holding the maximum amount of moisture it can at a given temperature and pressure and such any moisture above that just condenses it is related to temperature, so air. At ten percent, fifty percent or hundred percent relative humidity holds less amount of moisture, measured at grams per cubic meters than the same levels of humidity at a higher temperature. But the fun part is say: 50 relative humidity feels the same on human skin at any temperature. Well, the temperature feels different, but forty to sixty percent relative humidity is always the more comfortable zone.

No matter the temperature sounds confusing, but that's not all the airflow helps remove more moisture from your skin, and that makes you feel like the air is drier, and none of those has anything to do with the type of the heater so you're sitting in a closed Room with a fixed, moisture content, you warm up the air with whatever heater with the same moisture content, the relative humidity drops, and so the air feels drier. If you use wood fireplace, the room, air is forced out of the chimney and fresh air replaces it and, depending on the moisture content of the fresh air, the room can feel drier or more humid. When you have a type of fireplace where it sucks the room's oxygen, you must have a vent to let the fresh air in that's. Why old wood fireplaces are a bunch of inefficient air polluting oxygen, depriving fire hazard garbages that people mostly use because they provide a cozy ambiance, so a water, heater, radiator or an electric heater in a closed room won't make a difference.

But if you have one of those heaters that blows air on you, it will make you significantly drier because of the flowing air, not because the heater is electric. That might be why some people think electric heaters dry, you more because they can be of the portable type that you can put close to yourself and get locally much warmer and they can blow air both contributing to a much drier bubble around you. But you would achieve the same results if you could use a warm water heater. The same way.

Electricity has nothing extra to do with the moisture removal you get. It stop dragging electricity's name through the mud. It's okay darling. They apologize.

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