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Electric Why is electric heat sizingcapacity calculated using floor area instead of space volume?

Doing some homework for a customer who wants to install electric baseboard heat. As I am trying to determine how many feet/watts I need. I ran across some guidelines that make sense, except they use the "X" number of watts to square foot ratios. 

Why wouldn't it be "X" number of watts to Cubic foot of space, wouldn't? Wouldn't that be more accurate??

Electric heat sizing

Doing some homework for a customer who wants to install electric baseboard heat. As I am trying to determine how many feet/watts I need. I ran across some guidelines that make sense, except they use the "X" number of watts to square foot ratios. Why wouldn't it be "X" number of watts to Cubic foot of space, wouldn't that be more accurate??

Why is electric heat capacity calculated using floor area instead of space volume?

Doing some homework for a customer who wants to install electric baseboard heat. As I am trying to determine how many feet/watts I need. I ran across some guidelines that make sense, except they use the "X" number of watts to square foot ratios. 

Why wouldn't it be "X" number of watts to Cubic foot of space? Wouldn't that be more accurate??

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Electric heat sizing

Doing some homework for a customer who wants to install electric baseboard heat. As I am trying to determine how many feet/watts I need. I ran across some guidelines that make sense, except they use the "X" number of watts to square foot ratios. Why wouldn't it be "X" number of watts to Cubic foot of space, wouldn't that be more accurate??