Heathrow Airport Single Point of Failure

[Uncle Albert]

[vwdan]

Not really sure what people are expecting here - you're talking about power requirements equivalent to a town, there's only so much redundancy that you can realistically have when it comes to keeping an entire airport operational.

There's a world of difference between safety critical redundancy, and a level of redundancy which allows normal operation when a huge piece of electrical infra goes down.

There are huge, critical, substations all over the grid - it would be completely impractical, and unreasonable, to try and duplicate them all along with their supply and distribution networks for one off, major, events like this

[vwdan]

All critical systems have backups. Non-critical systems, which were affected by the fire, have less resilience. The airport closed because of safety, not because critical systems failed.

If your business is in disaster recovery planning then there's going to be a good opportunity to earn a few bob over the coming months.

Indeed, and then as ever, people will start with "We need complete redundancy" and when presented with the bill, soon start to realise that a sensible middle ground is in order.

[xoggoth]

Milly Beans may be right. If good old V was still here this DM news would have been posted by now:

Counter terrorism police probe Heathrow fire amid claims of Russian sabotage: Substation blaze fits the pattern of Putin's disruption attacks in Europe, and exposes 'vulnerability' in UK infrastructure, say experts | Daily Mail Online

[milanbenes]

what happened to V ?

Milan.

[sadkingbilly]

Milly Beans may be right. If good old V was still here this DM news would have been posted by now:

aye, - right!

[milanbenes]

anyway, if this is hi brid raw fare, then umm, things and life is gonna get interesting

Milan.

[sadkingbilly]

anyway, if this is hi brid raw fare, then umm, things and life is gonna get interesting

Milan.

yeh, you best stock up on heavy gauge tinfoil for your headgear.

[SussexSeagull]

I would have thought back up generators only keep safety critical systems going.

Even if it was an accident, if you are the sort of actor who wants to cause disruption to the UK you now have learnt a relatively easy way of doing it while sitting at home looking at BBC.co.uk,

[milanbenes]

i guess the Heathrow Leadership Team have been on ebay all weekend bidding on generators

Milan.