Aha - found it! Heat for the cost of leaving on a light bulb.

[icarus]

After paying a paaaaiiiiinful $200 heating bill for my DeLonghi oil heater (it's one of the better ones, but not cheap to run, no, no) I ran to decorator!mom for help.

"Oh, the Australians have the best heating and insulation options," said decorator!mom. (The job comes with a cape.)

After some confusion, she linked me to convection heating at econo-heat.com. "You want convection heat. The heaters aren't the cheapest, but the cost savings on your electric bill are amazing."

Beware the Eco-heat sold on Amazon.com. It's a cheap knock-off that doesn't always honor their warranty and has a problem with cracking. They're also sneaky and picked a similar name.

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[pocketmouse]

I had those in the place I lived in College Park -- they were absolutely useless. We left them running for two solid days and the temperature didn't even go up a degree.

[icarus]

I'll mention it to decorator mom. Most of the people who've reviewed love them. Are you sure those weren't the cheap knock offs? Also, they come in different sizes for different sized rooms. Was it the right size for the room?

[pocketmouse]

They look more like the ones you linked to than the ones you warned against from Amazon. But this was three years ago, and they came with the apartment, so I don't really remember any details about them -- they didn't work, so we ignored them.