By Jo Nova

Turns out, one of the world’s largest airports apparently didn’t have reliable back up generators. This may be just sheer incompetence but some insiders are saying it’s because it went Net Zero compliant in 2012 and switched diesel generators for biomass ones.

It was completely reliant on one substation nearby which went up in a fireball yesterday. The blackout left something like 290,000 people stranded, with 1,3oo flights canceled or rearranged.

By Martin Robinson, Daily Mail

One industry source has claimed that Net Zero is to blame because Heathrow is moving from diesel back-up generators to biomass.

Reform MP Richard Tice said: ‘It appears that Heathrow had changed its backup systems in order to be, wait for it…Net Zero compliant’.

‘They had got rid of their diesel generators and had moved towards a biomass generator that was designed not to completely replace the grid but work alongside it. Their net zero compliant backup system has completely failed in its core function at the first time of asking’.

“Basically their net zero-compliant back-up system had completely failed in its core function at the first time of asking. It beggars belief.”

Speaking to The Telegraph, Mr Tice said: “Why is Heathrow being so silent about this? Are they embarrassed because they have something to hide?

They were proud of their effort to change the global weather by (0.0 degrees)

According to the DailyMail the North Hyde substation fire involved a very old transformer catching alight and “involved 25000 litres of cooling oil igniting”. Previously it had been running at 106% of capacity.

In their defence Heathrow effectively said they weren’t even trying to back up the whole airport, just some runway lights. Nothing to see here… it is just critical national infrastructure that could fail at any moment or be taken out in a blink at times of warfare:

[The Telegraph]  — Heathrow said in a statement the airport’s back-up energy systems worked ‘as expected’ when the substation fire started.

It said: ‘We have multiple sources of energy into Heathrow.

‘But when a source is interrupted, we have back-up diesel generators and uninterruptable power supplies in place, and they all operated as expected. ‘Our back-up systems are safety systems which allow us to land aircraft and evacuate passengers safely, but they are not designed to allow us to run a full operation.

No matter how we look at this, in every direction, we see incompetence.