it is both true and proven, even by the shop in San Francisco, that electric stovetops do not supply the heat, as well as do not heat the walls of the wok!
there are small stovetop gas burners, but i suppose theey will be outlawed too.
so will we see an emigration of all sorts of oriental cooking, since the wok is prevalent in all asian cooking from the Phillipines to Mongolia and all points inbetween.
It’s racciss!
Don't worry, capitalist ingenuity and the innovation skills of Asian entrepreneurs will create an alternative wok heater. Perhaps just a giant infra-red lamp that runs off of a diesel generator in the alley. Or a traditional wood fired wok heater for the gourmet establishments.
The net result will be good food but 10 times the emissions of the previous solution.