Another view
saw this from local news
"It is believed that lightning struck gas containers at the site during bad weather this evening, causing a large fire."
There was thunder and lightning across England yesterday evening, but I'm also a bit doubtful that a strike 'blew up' a gas storage tank.
The official statement on this reads:
I checked lightningmaps.org - which enables you to review lighting strikes globally over the past 24 hours - and it showed that there were strikes nearby but not right at the waste treatment/biogas facility. Screenshot below.
[Purple dots denote locations of lightning strikes, the red dot I added denotes the Cassington biogas facility.]
If it was lightning, it was one hell of a thunderbolt, and lightning detectors didn't pick it up.
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The "Cassington" biogas facility? I'm also reminded of recent discussion on EM weapons generating storms as a side effect...[Purple dots denote locations of lightning strikes, the red dot I added denotes the Cassington biogas facility.]
If it was lightning, it was one hell of a thunderbolt, and lightning detectors didn't pick it up.
Drone footage of the Oxford incident:
No signs of an explosion. The fire flared spectacularly, but apparently nothing detonated.
It's nonetheless interesting that lightning 'picked out' such a facility, which reminds me of our observations over the years of locations storing or processing chemicals often, apparently, functioning as 'attractors' for lightning.
Perhaps as of recalling the incident on 2016 - below -.However, it does sound like the
people in the car a couple of posts back say that they saw the lightning strike.
It's nonetheless interesting that lightning 'picked out' such a facility, which reminds me of our observations over the years of locations storing or processing chemicals often, apparently, functioning as 'attractors' for lightning.
A huge methane gas fireball ignited by a lightning strike at a food waste plant has caused £250,000 of damage, the site's management has said.
The Agrivert site at Benson, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was struck at about 17:20 BST on Thursday.
Commercial manager Harry Waters said lightning ignited gas stored in a waste digester, causing a fire which burned for 20 minutes and destroyed the roof.
He said staff were "very surprised" by the explosion but no one was injured.
Emma Shepperd captured a video of the fireball from her home, while trying to film the storm.
Mr Waters said he hoped to have a replacement roof installed before the end of the month.
He said: "[Staff] are well trained, did exactly what they were supposed to do, and isolated the plant and made it safe.
"We were back up and running within an hour. It looks quite dramatic in the video but caused a surprisingly small amount of damage."
Mr Waters said the storm overwhelmed the lightning protection systems at the site, which processes local food waste into energy from methane gas.
Is pretty much the digesting of organic garbage from several places to produce methane among other gases.it is said to be a "waste food processing facility". do we have so much " waste food" to justify such a huge facility?? who supplies this waste food?. what comes out of this facility?? bugs???
Good find!Perhaps as of recalling the incident on 2016 - below -.
From 2016. It was of another plant on the same region.
Didn't found the Emma's video capturing the fireball, nor other similar ones. It would be interesting to see how the fire/explosion was started.
Oxfordshire lightning gas plant fireball causes £250k damage
The owner of a Range Rover Evoque which caught fire two days after she parked it at Edinburgh Airport has been angered to be told there was nothing wrong with the car.
...Hazel Stewart said the blaze which destroyed the £27,000 vehicle and two adjacent cars was the latest of a series to affect Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) best-selling model.
Another two cars were damaged in the incident, in a multi-storey car park in January.