
(screen shot from the 2016 trailer on youtube)
Fast forward today. The silo still consumes power for a lamp but there's no lamp any more. Electric network usage graphs indicate a power consumption increase at night from a rocket silo, but no useful effect to go with it. Certainly none that I see.

Time of day was manipulated using the map editor. Those little variations at the top are from the sun rising/setting.
(yes, 10 kW is a petty thing to be complaining about when you're launching a rocket...
