Fireball in Oxfordshire turns sky orange after lightning strike

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Severn Trent Green Power published a statement on their Facebook page saying they could "confirm that at around 19:20 this evening, a digester tank at its Cassington AD facility near Yarnton, Oxfordshire, was struck by lightning resulting in the biogas within that tank igniting.

  I mean, we’ve all lit our farts but that’s next level.

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jeremy Clarkson finally blows up after his planning permission to put a pepper grinder on his kitchen table is declined.

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think he’s mainly full of hot air.

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• tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Severn Trent Green Power published a statement on their Facebook page saying they could "confirm that at around 19:20 this evening, a digester tank at its Cassington AD facility near Yarnton, Oxfordshire, was struck by lightning resulting in the biogas within that tank igniting.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod

  A lightning rod or lightning conductor (British English) is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning strike. If lightning hits the structure, it will preferentially strike the rod and be conducted to ground through a wire, instead of passing through the structure, where it could start a fire or cause electrocution.

  The principle of the lightning rod was first detailed by Benjamin Franklin in Pennsylvania in 1755,[2] who in subsequent years developed his invention for household application (published in 1757) and made further improvements towards a reliable system around 1760.

  This seems like the sort of thing that one could reasonably equip a facility with large tanks of explosive gas with in 2023.

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  • Nighed@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeh, seems like an oversight. Maybe they thought that as the tanks were metal they wouldn’t need it?

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