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   greem (greem@cyberplace.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 19:40:29 JST greem

   • Kevin Beaumont

   @GossiTheDog surely you're not suggesting foul play?

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     Quixoticgeek (quixoticgeek@social.v.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 19:44:30 JST Quixoticgeek

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog for something as important as Heathrow, I'm genuinely surprised that a single sub station should take the whole airport offline...you'd think they'd have better resilience.

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     Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (pa27@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 20:18:48 JST Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog Talk about single point of failure. A failed substation should be a case of switching around, power issue for an hour tops. Heathrow also had a massive battery backup - I went there as part of a battery monitoring system install, though that was 30 years ago. It was huge - a costco sized warehouse full of racks and racks of cells. I wonder if someone decided it was too expensive in the intervening years?

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     Floating Onion (floatingonion@cyberplace.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:34:01 JST Floating Onion

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog That’s utterly broken. Given the economic impacts how are they not Critical National Infrastructure?

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     cerement (cerement@social.targaryen.house)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 05:45:57 JST cerement

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog

     Redirect all power to f̶o̶r̶w̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶s̶h̶i̶e̶l̶d̶s̶ the PR department!