[OT] Heathrow hires high-wire team to change ... light bulbs

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Notice you've missed out ordinary cars. Over 400g per mile.

[Andrew Gabriel]

It costs £5K to replace some of the lamps in the London Underground. That's one of the reasons they are moving to LED for some lights.

[ARW]

And from that link "We now have an ongoing relationship with BAA regarding training and maintenance"

[ARW]

+1

Or will have to be a electric scissor lift that is only charged from green solar panels that is used?

How does anyone else think that the lights got there in the first place? Bet it was a scissors platform or similar with an electrician and not the local circus high-wire team doing the wiring.

[Tricky Dicky]

Somebody must have put the light bulbs there in the first place why can't they do it the same way?

Richard

[ARW]

The French brothel architects agree with you.

[Nightjar]

My figures are grams per passenger kilometre.

I omitted cars simply because there are far too many variations, depending upon size, fuel and occupancy. At one end, a diesel VW Polo with four people aboard would be 37.9 gCO2/pkm. At the other, excluding a few esoteric luxury cars, a petrol Land Rover Discovery with driver only comes out at 286.9 gCO2/pkm.

Colin Bignell

[Nightjar]

I suspect that the concourse was probably empty at the time. As Chris French says, it gets rather more complicated when it is full of people and has to continue to operate normally.

Colin Bignell

[ARW]

And the high wire experts will not need the area below them corndoned off?

[Bill]

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

You must be on a higher social plane than me. My diesel estate is listed at about the same as the hybrid cars average in the list, and I bet it will carry more junk with more legroom for the passengers than any of the hybrids I've seen.

[Nightjar]

I would expect them to sling netting close under where they are working to protect people below, so probably not.

Colin Bignell

[Bill]

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

You must be on a higher social plane than me. My diesel estate is listed at about the same as the hybrid cars average in the list, and I bet it will carry more junk with more legroom for the passengers than any of the hybrids I've seen.

[ARW]

Wasting more time and money.

[charles]

most likely the entire building was filled with scaffolding.

[ARW]

Is scaffolding illegal? Then just install more scaffolding.

[charles]

a bit difficult when you've got thousands of customers wandering around.

[ARW]

And the story is a wind up.-)

[ARW]

Driven northbound on the A100 to Tower Bridge recently?

[charles]

No.

[ARW]

The LHS pavement of the A100 northbound up to the brigde is all covered scaffold. And that bridge has thousands of tourists.