Technically fire heat is just another electromagnetic energy. So if you're using coals, gas, the grid, the magnetron plasma box, or one of those hippy sun mirror boxes that can't thaw an ice cube at noon in the desert, you're still using the same kind of energy.
I personally think pulling heat out the walls with nothing more than a push of a button, drawing upon the efforts of 8000~ years of societal evolution to almost instantly sear a steer with a cool to the touch induction top is way far more cooler than rubbing two sticks together like a Geico customer, but I hate cleaning the grill, electric coil drip pans, and/or gas stoves. Even Star. Trek didn't dream up fictional cool to touch cooking surfaces, we did that without you Roddenberry.
My induction stove top is just as shiny as they day I brought it home with little more than a wipe down after daily use and a weekly CeramiBrite polishing. Fifteen years of cleaning 'old style' apartment gas or electric stoves from age 19 - 34, and I was sold on the easiest to cleanup stove top in existence as soon as I had my own kitchen.
If my neighbor wasn't a psycho hose beast who spent every evening screaming vulgarities at her children, phone contacts, pets, neighbors, clouds, I might consider getting a nice gas grill but I have no inclination to cook in such a toxic environment as my back yard. Even then, I'm not messing with coal. I did that once and learned, if I'm not the one assigned to clean it then someone else will use it and not clean out the ashes, which saturate in the humidity, form lye, and rot out the bottom of the grill. So if the cohabitators want to complain about the 'lack of coal/smoke flavor' when I look at a gas grill, I may have to remind them of my $350 coal grill-smoker they destroyed while I was out of town for work.
I'm good with angry wall pixies for most my cooking, if I must use flame I prefer it to be highly controlled and refined propane, at least it doesn't form lye in the bottom of the grill when the roommates don't clean it.
at least it is not smoke this time 
