It may well have a neat convecting design with that 'chimney' effect, and I can see that being able to get the heat circulating around the wider room more quickly; a faster, funnelled, channel of hot air rising up from the heater will most likely circulate around the ceiling and back down the other side of the room a bit more quickly than one without this design, so it could well be more ... More @Wikipedia
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