Gas prices - Where is gas still affordable?

If I suck the C out of thin air, it’s even climate neutral ;)

Oh come on, even climate positive! Probably skeptics would again come up with a new cult warning about the "overfishing of the atmosphere" and the reduction of plant growth :D

oh, for electricity we have a "transmission efficiency," but not for gas? And for gas, you calculate with the highest efficiency you can find for devices, but for the heat pump rather with the lower average? Interesting...

2.5-3 is not a lower average for an air-water heat pump... very few people pay a lot extra to install a larger heat pump than the heat calculation requires and, for even more extra cost, reduce the flow temperature to 28°C and have the pipes laid less than 10 cm apart... Then the outdoor unit is placed in permanent shade in the north, and you can be glad if you even reach 3 in a mild winter...

And andimann mentioned the most important point at the end. It may be the most noble to store gas, convert it into electricity in power plants, and then use it in heat pumps. But that is by far the most technically complex and expensive way. Especially since dozens of new power lines would have to be built or upgraded for that... the natural gas network is already there, nothing needs to be upgraded...

The engineer always has to weigh the technically best but also the most economical solution ;)

Like with underfloor heating and a flow temperature of 28°C instead of 35°C... thousands of euros are thrown out the window for a few percent savings, which does not pay off even over decades...

The value in my rough calculation above is therefore rather at the upper level of the assumptions. But it is not about 5-10% better or worse efficiency at all. Personal usage behavior is much more important. I always find these statements like "The heat pump is easily twice as good in the chain of effects as a gas heating system" quite nonsensical. That is simply not true. They are not that far apart, and you can make both versions look better. Although the heat pump is probably a tad better in reality, and that will probably rightfully be the future. But only as long as you use a comparatively clean gas power plant as the power source. If you do the calculation with electricity from a lignite power plant, your heat pump will be quite a pollution generator...

In the last sentence, at least the connection between reducing explicit gas consumption for heating vs. the electricity mix and supplementary base load supply, which partly got out of balance due to the French maintenance wave, is not recognizable.
And will this figurative lignite power plant run extra for the next 20 years for that purpose?

A heat pump only really makes sense when I generate the electricity myself, for example from photovoltaics, or it is locally generated through renewable energies. This was not possible with conventional fossil fuel heating systems. Unlike pellet heating, I am also not dependent on the fluctuating prices on the international wood market, which currently makes them absurdly expensive.

Gas leaks are quite rare, not much is lost there. They put in a lot of effort because there is always bad press when some place burns down again.

Meanwhile at Bornholm ... oh no, it’s not flaring, just bubbling. There, at Bornholm, gas is still affordable at the moment, drive quickly and collect it, otherwise it will soon only get more expensive. It won’t be green or climate neutral then either, but at least Freedom Gas in the future.

How does one actually come up with that nonsense? There’s a lot of bubbling but certainly no gas...