Q: Which city uses the most electricity?

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how we supposed to answer that ?

Matt

West Virginia exports the most...http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:lvp-rUMi0eQC:www.coalforum.org/newsletter6.htm+%22the+most+electricity%22+%22united+states%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8

Originally posted by filburt1
West Virginia exports the most...http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:lvp-rUMi0eQC:www.coalforum.org/newsletter6.htm+%22the+most+electricity%22+%22united+states%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8 And West Virginia is also a state, not a city.

I would think

1. las vegas - the strip

2. new york city - times square, etc

Originally posted by dherman76
I would think

1. las vegas - the strip

2. new york city - times square, etc

I would lean towards NYC.

NYC population: 8 million

LV population: 483 thousand

NYC metro area: 15 million+ (depending on how far west of the hudson you want to go)

LV metro area: 1.5 million

wow, where did you guys get this info ?

If there is a correlation between population and electricity use (which makes sense), then wouldn't Tokyo be the winner with a population of 12.1 million?

yea, but this world doesnt make sense, so i dont think there will be a correlation..but who knows ?

This probably doesn't help, but it is kind of cool. Real time energy stats for CA and NY:

CA: http://energycrisis.lbl.gov/ca/
NY: http://energycrisis.lbl.gov/ny/

California uses more energy than NY overall, but I think CA has a larger population.

Originally posted by uuallan
If there is a correlation between population and electricity use (which makes sense), then wouldn't Tokyo be the winner with a population of 12.1 million?

Most likly, sorry my fault, I wasnt thinking on an international level. I'm pretty sure Tokyo has both NYC and LA and LV beat all together.

Originally posted by uuallan
This probably doesn't help, but it is kind of cool. Real time energy stats for CA and NY:

CA: http://energycrisis.lbl.gov/ca/
NY: http://energycrisis.lbl.gov/ny/

California uses more energy than NY overall, but I think CA has a larger population.

As a state, yes CA is larger than NY both population wise and land area, but on a city level, NYC is 5 times bigger population wise and in some cases 10 times as dense, if not more.

it depends on what you count as the city too. Or what companies generate the power. Are you talking all the adjacent suburbs that are technically part of the metro area? Or strictly the city limits boundaries even if that power plant provides power for users outside of the city limits?

Does this question pertain to the United States only? Because if it doesn't I would think that the city that consumes the most electricity would be Tokyo, Japan (pop: 28 million) or Mexico City (pop: 23 million).

I have no clue on the international level

Does this question pertain to the United States only? Because if it doesn't I would think that the city that consumes the most electricity would be Tokyo, Japan (pop: 28 million) or Mexico City (pop: 23 million).

I'm talking about the general usage from any city (international or US-based). I was thinking more towards the line of Tokyo, but there is nothing I can find on the web that supports this fact.

Tokyo sounds like it would be pretty high..

LV population: 483 thousand
LV metro area: 1.5 million ?????????
What's the 483 thousand? Excluding Henderson and North Las Vegas (combined, still less than 1/4 of the population in the valley) we don't have suburbs, it's just one place...Las Vegas.

This was the only thing I could find on LV...
http://sierrapacificresources.com/images/np_energysources.pdf Certainly not the most, but per capita we use a lot.

I will shed some light on night time usage (at least for the light bill)

http://www.artbell.com/images/earthatnight.jpg
:idea:

nice pic:)

Originally posted by uuallan
If there is a correlation between population and electricity use (which makes sense), then wouldn't Tokyo be the winner with a population of 12.1 million?

You'd think . . . but there are no cities outside of the U.S. Remember? Didn't they teach you this in school? ;)

(sense the sarcasam)

Originally posted by Alareach
I will shed some light on night time usage (at least for the light bill)

http://www.artbell.com/images/earthatnight.jpg
:idea:

Just further proof that everyone in the world loves to live on the water (for obvious reasons). Look at the Nile River alone, I found that to be quite interesting.

the world needs water - its not that they 'want' to live by it. Its because early settlers settled their fist - and cities started and haven't moved since. (just my 2 cents)

Originally posted by uuallan
If there is a correlation between population and electricity use (which makes sense), then wouldn't Tokyo be the winner with a population of 12.1 million? Population alone probably wouldn't give you the answer, for several reasons. A few considerations: for home use, many US cities consume a lot of electricity during the summer for air conditioning. I don't know how true that is for Tokyo, for example, but NYC uses more electricity in the summer than in winter. That might not be true of large cities in some other parts of the world.

Also, the presence manufacturing and heavy industries would make a big difference: a huge factory running 24 hours a day consumes a lot of electricity. How many homes or people would that equal? And even if you could find stats, would an industrial complex that has it's own power plant be counted?

Originally posted by dherman76
the world needs water - its not that they 'want' to live by it. Its because early settlers settled their fist - and cities started and haven't moved since. (just my 2 cents)

Nope, my water can be piped in. I want to live on the water to have my boat 100 feet away and to watch the sunrise and sunset over the horizon from my lanai. :D

Originally posted by Alareach
I will shed some light on night time usage (at least for the light bill)

http://www.artbell.com/images/earthatnight.jpg
:idea: Cool pic, interesting to see. Damn, the eastern half of the US is totally covered, nothing untouched.

alot of huge cities are on the east coast...