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Pretty much anything you can do with gas, you can do with electricity as well. The exception is the kind of petrochemical industry where the alternative to gas is oil.
But heating? No problem. 20 years ago, most free-standing houses around had electrical heating. You might consider that a little wasteful, and it was, but we had the power and it was clean, so why not? With the current higher power prices that doesn't make sense any longer, so now most of those houses have switched either to district heating (in cities), modern advanced wood stoves, or most interestingly, geothermal heat-pumps. You put one kWh of electricity in and get 3-5 kWh of heat back. That's more efficient than gas heating, even if the electricity was generated in a gas-fired power plant. Which it obviously don't need to be when you have 8 GW of nuclear power standing idle... Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Again, running maintenance-heavy old nukes in Germany is not that cheap, as shown by the announced early closure of Grafenrheinfeld for lack of profitability. Not to mention the cost of retrofitting closed nukes for new safety regulations.
Pretty much anything you can do with gas, you can do with electricity as well.
Do you want to generate load-proportional electricity with electricity?... As for heating, re-starting old nukes tomorrow won't result in the instant conversion of home heating equipment. If we talk about the long term, electric heating might be part of a long-term solution, but the example of France shows that this brings its own problems (I think two winters ago a cold spell led to a surge of demand above 100 GW, forcing France to import even with nukes running full-throttle, leading to network problems in Germany which were predictably blamed on wind). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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