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by PixyMisa 1570 days ago
Electric heating is a thing that exists. With heat pumps it's quite efficient too.

Switching wholesale from existing gas heating is not a trivial exercise though.

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Sure heat pumps are the future. But it will take decades to replace existing heating systems with heat pumps. We still install hundreds of brand new gas heaters every day in Germany.
It may exist somewhere (especially in France, if I'm not mistaken), but it doesn't exist in all of our (I'm European) houses. Good thing that spring is coming but I don't see our houses getting converted to electric heating till next winter comes. Or maybe the hope is that Putin will fall by then or that a nuclear winter will make all these concerns obsolete, anyway.