Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ on Nostr: ..demand is like that of a small city. All that lighting, heating, aircon and baggage ...

..demand is like that of a small city. All that lighting, heating, aircon and baggage handling takes enormous power -- and a new major grid connection would not have looked cheap. You're talking tens of megawatts, a new substation, new runs of high voltage pylons that everybody resists building in a built-up environment. The knock on effects of placing a large load in a different part of the network ripple out. And, since, the budgetary cost of a major airport expansion is..