Actually it's the Germans and the Western Europeans who are hard at work pushing the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. They don't want their people to freeze in winter. Nobody does.
Nobody wants Dementia Joe's terrible poll numbers.
Listen to the German Defense Minister just today:
Don't Drag Nord Stream 2 Into Conflict Over Ukraine, German Defmin Says
www.usnews.com ^ | Jan. 13, 2022 | By Reuters
Posted on 13/01/2022, 21:16:13 by RomanSoldier19
German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht on Thursday warned against drawing a link between the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, meant to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany, and the differences with Moscow over Ukraine.
Short term they have to use Russian gas they shut down half their nukes in fear over fukashima. Long term the Germans also have a carbon tax and it doesn’t matter if it’s Russian gas or German gas the consumer will pay that ever rising carbon tax. Heat pumps are already more efficient than gas heat this has been proven ad nausium Mitsubishi has heat pumps that have COP above one down to negative 14F and positive COP down to minus 21F. Got really cold climates ground source heat pumps are the most efficient heat source on the planet bar none. One trip over to Google Scholar will yield all the hard science one could ever want to know about the subject. The thing with heat pumps is they can be designed to be able to store heat for long periods of time or cold for that matter. You can have a heat pump that is making hot water while also air conditioning the air or running flat out off peak or on demand putting hot water into an insulated tank with ice in the other tank then when peak.demand or higher process you draw from the tanks not run the compressors. Large systems would be grid controlled so when the wind is blowing hard all the heat pumps everywhere turn on and start storing heat in their local on-site tanks when the wind drops off you now have gigawatts worth of heat energy stored all over where it is needed most right next to its users. Same for AC when the sun is out and or the wind is blowing you run your heat pumps full bore making ice and hot water in those same tables when the sun sets you now have days worth of cold in the form of ice that’s melting and hot water for local use. This is the future. Heat pumps can have COPs above 7 which for the scientifically challenged means for every kilowatt of electricity they consume they produce seven kilowatts worth of output heat or cold or both. This is due to the phase charge latent heat of a gas to liquid and liquid to gas heat cycle thank you Mr Carnot and your utter genius.