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    $\begingroup$ Are you including the office building(s) lights and computers, lights in the parking lot, charging up Teslas to drive to work, etc? $\endgroup$
    – Organic Marble
    Commented Jun 28 at 18:59
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    $\begingroup$ legitimately this could be somebody's academic thesis. $\endgroup$
    – Darth Pseudonym
    Commented Jun 29 at 1:34
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    $\begingroup$ People have been trying and failing to calculate this for cars for decades. Given that we have no way of doing this for cars, and with the added complication of ITAR and National Security restrictions for rockets, I highly doubt this is answerable. $\endgroup$
    – Jörg W Mittag
    Commented Jun 29 at 13:26
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    $\begingroup$ Is the premise that there is something inherently different about rocket production that would cause there to be more or less electricity used producing them than other types of vehicles like cars, planes, ships, buses, trains etc? $\endgroup$
    – Steve Pemberton
    Commented Jun 29 at 15:44