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"There are exceptions for new buildings used for certain activities, including manufacturing, hospitals, commercial kitchens and laundromats."

Want to take bets on who consumes the most natural gas, households or the exceptions?

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  Consumption [0]   
    »  Residential  1,139 trillion Btu  5.4%   2019
    »  Commercial  1,122 trillion Btu  6.2%   2019
    »  Industrial  384 trillion Btu  1.2%   2019
    »  Transportation  1,211 trillion Btu  4.2%   2019

I wouldn't go to vegas if I were you.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/state/print.php?sid=NY

Your figures show that commercial and industrial consumers consume more gas than residential consumers.

Probably commercial/industrial usage involves a few large consumers, not many smaller consumers. So there are fewer opportunities for leaks or explosions.

Those statistics are for New York State, not NYC.

See page 27 (PDF page 33) of [0].

Commercial natural gas usage in NYC is roughly 40% of non-power generation natural gas usage. The actual proportion varies greatly depending on time of year, presumably due to natural gas heating in residential properties in colder months.

[0] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dep/downloads/pdf/air/nyc-combin...

On a per-unit basis, obviously the commercial users. But on a per-building and city-wide basis, almost definitely residential - huge amount of natural gas is used for residential space heating.

That's good because if there were no properly functioning woks in NYC I would be pretty pissed.

I use my wok with induction stovetops and it seems to work fine. I didn’t intentionally buy it for induction, so I was pleased to see it worked anyway.

There are also induction cooktops specifically designed for the shape of woks. Which makes sense, seeing as how China is currently the largest adopter of induction cooktops.

I didn't know, neat!

I was looking at commercial induction woks earlier - they use on the order of 15kW per wok, so about 51,000 BTU burner - but all the heat goes into the pan instead of the hood, so more equivalent to a 150k BTU gas burner

Commercial woks put out 5-10x the heat of a home range. Commercial induction exists too, but needs a lot more power than a home setup

I wonder what it would be like to cook with a 60-100kw inductive wok?

At 100kw, 55 seconds at full power would be enough to melt a 10kg iron wok.

I mean either way you need a specialized version for commercial use yeah, so not sure how it’s different.

In NYC, it's almost certainly households.

Want to take bets on how many more individual units are residential vs. commercial?

Shhhhhh. Something must be done, and this is something. Therefore it must be done.

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