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The Heat Surge is an electric heater that looks like a fireplace, that you can roll from room-to-room for heating as you need it. There is no chimney required and it plugs into the wall with a six foot cord. Kind of sounds like a space heater.

The manufacturer claims that the unit consumes less electricity than a coffee maker. According to the Alternative Consumer, this is if they are on for the same amount of time, which they probably are not. The manufacturer also claims you can save tons of cash by only heating the room you are in.

I'm sure in some climates where you just need a little bit of heat once in a while, something like this could work. Also, if you were willing to keep the rest of your house quite chilly and just use this in whatever room you were in, you might save some money. However, Alternative Consumer digs up a user review from Yahoo! Answers claiming that it didn't heat the room all that great.

The Heat Surge fireplace isn't cheap either, starting at $250 going up to $500 with a wooden case made by Amish craftsman. Sounds like a good idea if it really did work. But if you're just going to use something like this just to pretend you have a real fireplace, you might want to rethink that.