So swampy and his chums are still at it.
In my not-so-humble opinion, trying to shut down a power station is bordering on evil. I can imagine that anyone with friends or family in a hospital local to that station, would be of the attitude that any protestors there deserve whatever beating they get. Fucking with people’s power supply is stupid, potentially dangerous, and probably the best way to alienate the rest of the population in terms of persuasion.
In point of fact, don’t hospitals have UPS & generators for critical equipment? If not they’d better start thinking about it because rolling power cuts will be the norm in 5-6 years time thanks to a combination of the EU and the greenies. Anyway…
Given that their stated mission was to break in and "stop power production" I have very little sympathy with any protestors taking part who may have been hurt, and frankly they don’t even have the excuse that it was a legitimate protest – they went in order to commit a criminal act of vandalism.
Do read on…
AJ
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Ta for that.
Hospitals do have UPS back up, indeed they generally have massive generator sets, but I can’t imagine they have much more than 24-48 hrs worth. And even that would just be for essential circuits. Ultimately, fucking with the power is going to kill someone.
We’re stretched enough as it is; the only thing that stopped the lights going out last winter was the reduction in industrial demand due to the recession.
The diseasal generators we use can be fuelled up while running – they have 36hrs runtime and a 4 hour SLA for diesel deliveries – hence, in an N+1 arrangement (for maintenance and availability) they can be run indefinitely, in theory…
Will 24 Megawatts of locally generated leccy do you?
I get hard to that shit.
I’ve been wondering the same for a while. Haven’t the morons worked out what direction the backlash is going to flow when they actually succeed in disrupting a power station’s production long enough for a few intensive care patients to start doing the long beeeep? They won’t get much thanks for that, nor if they manage to keep the lights off long enough for the hospital morgues to warm up as well. It’s a predictable and provable consequence of their actions so arguably there could be manslaughter charges in it, and in the event of any civil suits it’s worth remembering that while some of the swampier soap dodgers might own little more than a couple of sticks the organisations themselves are fucking minted.
“Haven’t the morons worked out what direction the backlash is going to flow when they actually succeed in disrupting a power station’s production long enough for a few intensive care patients to start doing the long beeeep?”
With no power, will there be a beeeep? Or do those things run on batteries?
Blimey, this could be serious! The NHS better lay in more stethoscopes to diagnose death. And the odd mirror, to hold up to the patient’s nose…
It’s all part of the grand plan to address the (i) pension crisis and (ii) shortage of organ donors.
With no power, will there be a beeeep? Or do those things run on batteries?
Good point. I believe NHS emergency plans call for a member of nursing staff to sit there going ‘beeeeeep’ in that situation, and if no member of staff is available then under the Ministry of Health and NICE guidelines the patient will not be permitted to die until one is. Dying anyway without telling anyone is also not permitted.