Large explosion near Oxford

[rjfp1962]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-...

[basherX]

Biogas facility hit by lightning.

[bitchstewie]

Lightening strike hitting a gas tank as Severn Trent Green Power.

[vaud]

The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

[StevieBee]

basherX said:

Biogas facility hit by lightning.

Yep. That's essentially nature lighting a fart.

[colin79666]

StevieBee said:

Yep. That's essentially nature lighting a fart.

Glad they are reporting no one hurt. Hopefully that remains the case.

[Fatboy]

vaud said:

The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

Very good indeed

[phumy]

There needs to be an investigation into why the lightning protection didn't help, or was there even any installed.

[Brigand]

Ah, that'll be why the power went out for a few minutes last night then. I figured lightning had struck something, just not in such spectacular fashion! Cassington's only several miles from where I live, I didn't see any of the fireworks though.

[Martin_Hx]

phumy said:

There needs to be an investigation into why the lightning protection didn't help, or was there even any installed.

Saved them 50 quid when installing, we wont need it right?

[phumy]

Martin_Hx said:

Saved them 50 quid when installing, we wont need it right?

Saved more like £50k by not installing it but the cost to fix will run into millions, plus the £50k on the proper lightning protection.

[JuanCarlosFandango]

The ultimate grumpy old white man passing his judgement on recycling schemes?

[Halmyre]

Lithium battery explosion. You read it here first.

[DeejRC]

Nah it wasn’t Hal.
First thing I did when I saw that was make sure nobody had tried to blow the factory up again!

[dudleybloke]

Looks like 3 out of 5 gas holders went up.

[Silvanus]

Halmyre said:

Lithium battery explosion. You read it here first.

Apparently it was from a load of Chinese EV's parked outside of the Oxford Green Party headquarters.

[Fundoreen]

The not so obvious news here is that there is no news.
We still seem to have laws from WW2 to stop any reporting on anything like this. The news people dont even seem to be curious.
Meanwhile if similar happens overseas they seem to linger on every detail endlessly.

[Dogwatch]

Fundoreen said:

The not so obvious news here is that there is no news.
We still seem to have laws from WW2 to stop any reporting on anything like this. The news people dont even seem to be curious.
Meanwhile if similar happens overseas they seem to linger on every detail endlessly.

BBC South have been all over it all day and on their website too. Perhaps the DG didn’t get the “keep quiet, nothing to see here” memo.

There were no deaths or injuries and damage is apparently confined to the site so hardly news on the scale of, say, an earthquake in a populated area.

[gotoPzero]

I wonder if the cathedral spotters were in town...

[vaud]

Fundoreen said:

We still seem to have laws from WW2 to stop any reporting on anything like this.

We don't.