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Heathrow Airport shut down today
Heathrow Airport shut down today
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Has Dale Vince not flapped his arms enough?
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The truth is this type of thing could end in Disater , bro in Law lives two miles from LHX , said the amount of planes holding was unreal at one stage
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A source from the airport says back-up generators did spring into action, but they weren't enough to power the whole airport - an air industry boss says it leaves "serious questions"
No mention of NET ZERO from the Nations favourite news Source |
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People were talking about it this morning, back up was definitely switched to nut zero. Which is why it failed, obs.
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And then
On backup supplies, which have been questioned today, he says Heathrow has three substations with a back-up transformer, but one of these was also broken. we are getting there Perhaps Next week after aunty verifies everything ? we might know the Truth |
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All the legacy broadcast media will assist in the cover up, the legacy broadcasters and the nuts in Labour and Tories. Possibly one of the papers will run with it
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Perhaps the Russians Hacked the Nut Zero system , Edy should be on shortly with an Update ?
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Are we sure backup solutions at airports, be it diesel or woodship burning, are otherwise designed to provide enough power to run an entire airport to function normally?
I have some doubts.... |
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Especially if we are talking about managing to survive more than minimal power outages for a very short time.
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should an airport be able to function in a power cut.
what do you think ? |
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not talking about buying your pick n mix, toblerone or pint of Grolsch. but still have planes land and take off
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I would expect that airports have a backup.
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It should be able to survive short outages for sure. It should also be able to keep lights on for e.g. planes to be able to land.
I was merely wondering if planning at airports really normally provides for a scenario where power is completely cut and diesel generators or woodchip burners have to provide enough power for a long time to run the entire friggin' airport. That's a lot of generators and a lot of fuel for something that....happens once a century? |
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To quote The Daily Telegraph:
In its net zero plan, published in 2022, Heathrow said: “Stand-by generators currently operate using diesel as they need an independent power source to maintain resilient operations. They are used predominantly as back-up power for airfield ground lighting. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/21/fire-rages-electrical-substation-hayes/ So...yeah....are we absolutely certain that airports usually have the large diesel capacities for long-time complete function, or near complete function, or are we just playing ideological bad faith stuff here because we don't like net zero? |
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obviously yes. have you seen the docu series Chernobyl? if nuclear power stations suffer a power cut, they still need to operate basic functions or else there's nuclear meltdown. critical infrastructure needs to be able to maintain basic operation in a crisis.
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A nuclear power station that runs danger of contaminating the entire area for decades to come is a bit of a difference here.
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critical infrastructure needs to be able to maintain basic operation in a crisis.
...Like lights..... |
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For an airport.
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it can be done, and is done. power cuts aren't new. I have never heard of a major airport completely shutting down due a local power cut. like ever, in 40 years
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...but is that because all the airports have massive generator capacities, of course fueled with diesel instead of woodchips, or because they were able to e.g. reroute electricity as they were better connected to the national grid?
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I would assume back up is tailored to the local infrastructure. The clue is in the name, they were claiming this morning that the back up was affected by the fire. Which is BS.
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Backup can be many things. I can feel good about installing a battery in my Raspberry Pi to spare it from short outages of power. It will make my Pi survive the vast majority of cases. It will not have my Pi survive a day without electricity from the plug.
Do I nonetheless have a solution that I can rightly call a backup power plan? Absolutely I can. I quoted from the Daily Telegraph above, which in turn quoted from some guideline on what the then current diesel generators provided for. That says they are predominantly there for ground lighting. Maybe in the next days we will find out if the diesel generators of old would have been able to keep this really big airport running somewhat normally or if we are just playing silly ideological games here regarding the backup system now burning wood instead of diesel. |
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I'm pretty sure whatever turns out to be the case, most people who now go on about the backup generators being super bad net zero don't really know either as of now and are indeed just out to play little ideological games from a base of very little actual knowledge.
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Find out from whom. The zealots in the government
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From hard working independent and trustworthy journalists of the non-legacy media.
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It will be shut down, just like anything that goes against the new religion.
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What is being shut down due to going against the new religion that you feel should not be shut down?
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Other than the upcoming cover up regarding the diesel generators at Heathrow.
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These days/nights you can't have a decent slash in a shop doorway without a battery of cameras up your ass.
Hard to believe any unauthorised presence around this vital piece of kit could go undetected. |
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It would appear you are wrong there.
Last weekend there were rivers of Geordie pish enveloping the streets of London like torrents. |
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Cider 21 Mar 25 18:17 All the legacy broadcast media will assist in the cover up, the legacy broadcasters and the nuts in Labour and Tories. Possibly one of the papers will run with it Have you a new allegiance cider? |
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https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/sky-news-and-the-guardian-are-mocked-mercilessly/ar-AA1Boggp
Some of the Guardian subsribers on here might have choked on their soy lattes at the time. Can just imagine them wandering around trying to find the nearest needle to make them feel safe again. |