Heathrow Airport is shut until Friday night

[Ozgirl76]

And my husband is due to fly home to Australia on Friday evening. I predict chaos.
Airport is saying that people should not travel to Heathrow and should contact their airlines.

Looks like this is the fault of Sadiq Khan. No surprise there. He was alerted to the issues with this substation and ignored them deliberately. What a …….

Is there a source for that

Yes it's at www.bollocks.com

You told us earlier that the fault lay with the government's net zero policy for removing the backup diesel generators and that the person responsible for removing them 'to be green' should be sacked. Heathrow Airport has stated that all its diesel generators worked as they should have done so where's the evidence for that accusation and where's the evidence that it's now Sadiq Khan's fault?

Ah yes. Of course you would report sub station issues to the Mayor of London, rather than, you know, the Distribution Network Operators that actually run them.

That's where Heathrow has been going wrong all day, frantically on the phone to Sadiq Khan rather than National Grid and UKPN.

Daily Mail got hold of a report … wait and see….

Here in Sweden we just strap on a tiny generator on a moose, and let the moose power our lights with their majestic runs through the forests. 🤷‍♀️

Don’t you have badgers or something in the UK? Might want to give it a try, and give the poor cycling woman a rest.

Of course I can't be sure, but these kinds of fires happen, and happen exactly as described now and again, explosion, fireball, hot fire with black smoke - there is nothing out of the "ordinary" in that.

Check out transformer fire videos on you tube.

The aerial pics show the transformer next to its back up, which the fire also destroyed - oops - substation could be quite old, the transformers near West Quay in Southampton were built by Fuller Electric, a company that built good kit, but went out of business in the 60's.

My local substation has a BTH transformer dated 1948!

Lot of old kit still out there.

If anyone has seen Cobra on Sky they needed to transport some transformers and it was a big deal. Quite an entertaining program even if it was tosh!

@Bolscassis what report? That someone told a person who is in no way responsible for any substations in the UK about an issue with a sub station? Hold tbe press ....

You do know Sadiq Khan is not responsible for every thing that happens to be located in London?

So no source then. 🙄

Yep.

It's on the DM website, not saying it's true but the PP isn't making that up

I thought the National Grid owned and maintained sub-stations.

What this incident confirms to me is that we should not have so much of the English airport capacity in one place. So the third runway idea should finally be abandoned for good, and if airport capacity is to be increased, it should be at other airports.

When anything fucks up in the London Metropolitan Area, it's always Sadiq Khan's fault. 😜

tbf badgers are nippy little buggers but only over short distances, you could generate a bit of electricity by rubbing them together but you might lose your arm in the process. There's always the buttered cat array.

But it's London and the SE! Foreign investment, tourists, vital for the nation, the King blah blah. Always the same talk when it comes to moving outside London. HS2 the same

I've looked at the article and even the Daily Mail isn't claiming that the fire and subsequent Heathrow shutdown was Khan's fault. It's you who claimed that this is Khan's fault as he was "alerted to the issues with this substation and ignored them deliberately."

I know that a lot of people are now flying into there to get home so surely it will be busier. DH is in the States, he was due to arrive home early tomorrow morning. The next direct flight BA could book him on would get him home Tuesday lunchtime!!! So he's found a flight with Turkish airlines and is flying into Gatwick via Istanbul.

I had to google the buttered cat array, and my 17-year old cat said badgers surely must be the way to go.

You have hedgehogs too, they can be pretty fast!

Alas hedgehogs are more of a rarity than when I was young, but if they turn out to be useful in our quest for net zero a breeding programme might be arranged.

@kiwibluewe were advised today by BA that we wouldn’t be compensated if we arranged flights via different routes with different airlines. Has your husband arranged the new flights on his own or with the agreement of the airline? It could become quite expensive if not covered by them.

Generators on moose, badgers etc & along with the buttered cats array should be enough to provide all the back up power.

Though to be on the safe side we should have a second back up power source: generators on mardy foot stomping then throw themselves on the floor angry toddlers.
Generators on the bedroom doors of mardy teenagers.
And finally generators attached to the legs of giggly kicking babies.

With all that kinetic energy created that's the climate crisis/net zero sorted.

Edited: autocorrect

Its a shame it’s not Christmas…all those Brussels sprouts would do a great job