The boring heat pump is obliterating gas demand in Europe: heat pumps will cut 30 bcm of natural gas demand out of European buildings and light industry, each year, by 2030, a permanent structural erasure of gas demand
>30 bcm is about 20% of the entire annual output of the US LNG export infrastructure
>It's also 19% of Qatar’s entire annual global LNG exports, pre Hormuz
>And 80% of the total capacity of Russia's Power of Siberia 1, which ships 38.8 bcm/year to China
In Germany for example, heat pumps have outsold gas boilers for the 1st time in modern history. In the US, they've beaten gas boilers for 4 consecutive years
Every single heat pump is a non-reversible eviction notice for a fossil gas pipe
Well managed public transit is by far the most efficient way to move large numbers of people around in a big city. If it's too expensive or too uncomfortable it will not be used by the poor and the well-off at the same time and will therefore not really be PUBLIC transit.