[News] Another substation fire 🤔

[AmexRuislip]

Conspiracy theorists bread & butter

 

[RandyWanger]

These things need better fire suppression systems

 

[Home and Away]

Genuine question: The substation(s) look really old and not well protected at all. What do you think is the reason for these fires? Old technology (overheating, overload, etc.), poor protection against weather and foreign objects (like kids throwing stuff at them or some more sinister activity) or is this just normal that they go off in places?

 

[Robdinho]

Suspect this is more likely due to cutbacks to maintenance budgets /sweating the assets past their design life, than anything more sinister

 

[dadams2k11]

Genuine question: The substation(s) look really old and not well protected at all. What do you think is the reason for these fires? Old technology (overheating, overload, etc.), poor protection against weather and foreign objects (like kids throwing stuff at them or some more sinister activity) or is this just normal that they go off in places?

Russian hackers who have controll of the SCADA systems

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Russian subversives who watched The Italian Job then lobbed an old bike through the window

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Sorry, why is there thread about this?

Surely the London Fire Service have to deal with dozens of small fires on a daily basis. Is this one special?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Sorry, why is there thread about this?

Surely the London Fire Service have to deal with dozens of small fires on a daily basis. Is this one special?

It's called news and the relevance I thought is due the recent Heathrow fire

 

[Albion my Albion]

Suspect this is more likely due to cutbacks to maintenance budgets /sweating the assets past their design life, than anything more sinister

Bingo.

One of the people I drive on a regular basis is a salesman for the Siemens Company which supplies electrical equipment (transformers and other such large electrical property) to Power Producing Companies. He is continually lamenting that Power companies don't spend enough to upgrade their equipment causing dangerous situations with the existing power equipment. Of course all we do is complain when our electric bills go up. We never see the need for replacing the old equipment.