Get ready for a load of spin about how the government's "Jet Zero" strategy allows them to do this and remain compatible with their climate goals. Jet Zero is a Trojan horse to expand aviation while promising change and it'll be too late to stop it when very little happens.
BREAKING: HEATHROW VERDICT
— Plan B Earth (@PlanB_earth) December 15, 2020
I am breaking the court embargo on Heathrow to protest against the injustice of the verdict, which is a betrayal of the younger generation and those on the frontline of the crisis in the UK and around the world:https://t.co/R0nx4RazXF
Here is a press release from the local business lobbying organisation of which the airport is a member: https://t.co/UGUssnUyj7
Here is the same thing reheated in the local press with a reporter's name on it: https://t.co/C0dsPqufwk
Supreme Court lifts ban on Heathrow third runway https://t.co/NdCdPnn8Cf
— BBC Business (@BBCBusiness) December 16, 2020
Supreme Court had handed down its judgement on the Airports NPS. They say the Sec of State (Grayling) did not act unlawfully in approving a Heathrow 3rd runway, as he took enough account of climate targets and the Paris Agreement. That is just the narrow legal point of the case
— AirportWatch (@AirportWatch) December 16, 2020
Airbus proposed hydrogen planes 20 years ago https://t.co/4StnkfkshW but ditched the idea for all the well known issues with hydrogen 10 years later https://t.co/oc0FNkGwNs
But their head of future airplanes says they are impractical for anything but large, long haul routes. https://t.co/6eNCi3eYtj
Besides, to switch Heathrow to hydrogen would need roughly 50 GW of dedicated power stations - the equivalent of today's peak grid demand or 32 Hinkley C reactors.