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Why is it a lightbulb can light up a room more than a fireplace, but the fireplace radiates a lot more thermal energy? . Or atleast so it feels like.

Question is basically in the title. I just wondered since thermal radiation is basically electromagnetic waves right? Or am i missing something? And shouldnt the intensity light=intensity of heat.. Only thing i could think of would be that the fireplace maybe is radiating a lot of its heat in the invisible spectrum?

**edit** Just to make no confusion, since many answered this part. I meant that the radiating part of heat alone is stronger from a fireplace than a lightbulb. I know that the fireplace for obvious reasons will transfer also a lot of heat through convection/conduction too that a lightbulb won't do as much of because for one it's smaller. 

Some did answer what I was looking for though, specially thanks to them and thanks to everyone else who answered :)
gpt
Radiation of thermal energy (as opposed to conduction of thermal energy) *is* light, so when you say a fire feels very warm, it's because it *is* producing lots of light, just not in the visible spectrum. 

Light bulbs were specifically designed to use materials that produce most of their radiation in the visible spectrum, for energy efficiency.