Actually it makes a lot more sense than may appear at first glance. Heat pumps are incredibly efficient. So much so that burning natural gas to generate electr

Actually it makes a lot more sense than may appear at first glance. Heat pumps are incredibly efficient. So much so that burning natural gas to generate electricity to power a heat pump is more efficient than burning the gas directly to create heat. So even if we were to discount renewables entirely and change all natural gas furnaces to heat pumped powered by natural gas on the grid, we'd still come out ahead.