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Not used gas in years now, it's great. Heat pump didn't even cost that much really.
Great it works for you personally. It doesn't work for most of energy-intensive industrial processes.
Its all about energy. Why should not it work? In engineering you can combine many different plants for processing
Energy is not fungible. For starters, look at EROEI (or ECOE) and differences in fluctuating and dispatchable power, and also price, e.g. hydrogen via water electrolysis from surplus renewable generation. In theory, a very high EROEI renewable source of cheap electricity could power a complex technological culture. In practice, existing sources fall wide of the mark. While we're already in the tail end of the fossil energy and resource age.
Then we should probably reserve what we have for those processes rather than just burning it for heat.