Third runway

[Flying Bomb]

When the third runway is built at Heathrow, because the load on the local electric substation will be too great, the new runway will be lit with 5000 candles.
 Passengers will be asked to bring matches.

[JBR]

When the third runway is built at Heathrow, because the load on the local electric substation will be too great, the new runway will be lit with 5000 candles.
 Passengers will be asked to bring matches.

I agree.  I think they want to get the electricity supply system updated before they think about another runway.

Better still, another major airport further away, but even then by relying solely on windmills there are likely to be many outages in the not too distant future.  Consequently, we desperately need to kick this ridiculous idea of nett zero into touch and re-open coal power stations, and of course coal mines.

[dextrous63]

Until we really do have something better invented and are building it on a scale to replace like output for like output, I agree.

[Raven]

Yep, make that three. 

[Michael Rolls]

Four. Apparently the Heathrow boss is 'proud' of the they have coped with the problem. Proud not to have an adequate plan B?

[Ashy]

I can't quite see how the world's fourth airport closed for 24 hours is something to be proud of. Perhaps he means he's proud of the way the situation on the ground was handled. 

Heathrow Airport should really have at least two independent routes-in for electricity, one in use and the other hot standby with remote control of the switchgear. As I understand it, and partly in defence of the airport, the electricity supply is controlled by a supplier which I understand is SSE. When the transformer went down (or up) 62,000 customers were cut off, not just the airport, and the vast majority were restored within hours.

[dextrous63]

Anyway, great news.  With luck we'll have our third runway some place in Pakistan😬😬😉

[JBR]

Anyway, great news.  With luck we'll have our third runway some place in Pakistan😬😬😉

You mean in 'New Pakistan', perhaps where I was born, in Bradistan?

[dextrous63]

You mean in 'New Pakistan', perhaps where I was born, in Bradistan?

Sorry, forgot where I was.  Was referring to a thread created by muddy on t'other place..

https://www.pensionersforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,36214.0.html

[muddy]

Tsk .
We can't have a third runway we need to build a new airport in Pakistan ( with our money nach ) so that Pakistanis going on their hols will find it easier to visit Granny ( if she's not living in Birmingham  that is .) 

[Michael Rolls]

A third runway? What we rally need is a second channel tunnel so the poor dears don't risk getting their feet wet!

[Ashy]

Tsk .
We can't have a third runway we need to build a new airport in Pakistan ( with our money nach ) so that Pakistanis going on their hols will find it easier to visit Granny ( if she's not living in Birmingham  that is .)

I don't know what building a civil airport in a foreign country has got to do with our government, I would have thought it was a matter for aviation investors in Pakistan. Interesting though, that the infamous letter to our PM signed by 18 MPs (not all Pakistani) who allegedly represent British constituencies, includes 8 MPs who objected to the third runway at Heathrow on environmental grounds.

[dextrous63]

I have a cunning plan. Build the runway in Pakistan, but extend it so it stretches right the way over to the UK.  Thus people can travel by plane without ever actually having to take off, which should please the environmentalists.

Everyone's a winner.

[JBR]

I don't know what building a civil airport in a foreign country has got to do with our government, I would have thought it was a matter for aviation investors in Pakistan. Interesting though, that the infamous letter to our PM signed by 18 MPs (not all Pakistani) who allegedly represent British constituencies, includes 8 MPs who objected to the third runway at Heathrow on environmental grounds.

From what I have heard, I think that providing money to foreign countries for many different things is actually a Labour policy.  Of course, they have so much spare cash after removing it from British citizens that they must be searching high and low for somewhere to send it.  
I suppose the advantage is to make TwoTierKeir look big.

[Ashy]

From what I have heard, I think that providing money to foreign countries for many different things is actually a Labour policy. 

Since that is what they have done over and over again since taking office, it is labour policy to throw our money around.