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Lightning strike causes explosion in Oxfordshire recycling plant
- Oct, 02, 2023
- General Civil Landfill Engineering Risk & Reliability News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- United Kingdom, Cassington
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A lightning strike caused an explosion at a food waste recycling plant, which lit up Oxfordshire’s night sky on the evening of Monday, October 2. Furthermore, the event took place at the Cassington...
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Neolithic rock monument possibly built to attract lightning bolts
A new-found monument located in Scotland may have been deliberately built to attract lightnings, according to scientists. Researchers are investigating a recently discovered stone circle that is lo...
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Fulgurite: A rare phenomenon
A bolt of lightning is able to deliver up to 5 gigajoule of energy (energy that can power a house in the US for over a month). A bolt of lightning is able to deliver up to 5 gigajoule of energy (ener...
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