...well a little bit of it anyway...
http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4520148.stm
at first it was terrorists, now it's unlikely..... what do you think? Beest says oil isn't really all that explosive unless outside factors are involved...... ???
I agree with Beest there seems a touch suspect, I live the other side of London and the blast was heard here. Police claimed yesterday on the new that they are treating it as an accident, and now bbb.co.uk claim any evidence will have now been consumed by the fire.
Very disturbing.
some astronomer thinks it was twatted by a small meteorite!
some astronomer thinks it was twatted by a small meteorite!
probably retribution for the notorious gay scene there......... :roll:
Wouldn't it have to be a pretty big meteorite to cause an explosion, though? Presumably the tanks are pretty strong. And if it was, wouldn't more astronomers and other assorted sky-watchers have noticed it?
My local talk radio station decided very early on it was a terrorist strike. There still calling it a "possible terrorist attack" this morning.
A meteor the size of a football would do that!
Terorists?......Hemel Hempstead,lol, try eating out there, that's terror.
That plant does not just have oil, though it will be interesting when the media catches up and discovers that they were storing stuff they should not have been!
Beest says oil isn't really all that explosive unless outside factors are involved...... :???:
Did I say that, nutter :roll:
Reminiscent of [ur=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flixborough_disasterl]Flixborough[/url].
The main explosion here was caused by a leak and formation of a cloud of something more volatile than just oil. (cylcohexane)
As vapochilled said if there was some other chemical at the site that leaked and then ignited it would produce this effect.
The blast being heard and felt over such a wide area suggests more of this type of fuel-air explosion rather a ground based explosive device.
Of course if you knew what you were doing you could plant a small explosive in just the right place , followed up by another a little while later to produce this , requires a very high level of expertise though.
Several media outlets are calling it the "..largest industrial explosion in peacetime Europe..." but surely that would be attributed to Chernobyl, in Belarus.
not to be pedantic
but it was in Ukraine.
however, yes I agree.........Chernobyl and vicinity is still reeling
Chernobyl was a fire and melt down, not an explosion.
The BBC article mentioned fuel tanks. I remember, years ago, an explosion in an oil tank that had been emptied but not de-gassed, someone who was setting up to de-gas the tank, dropped a wrench into the tank.
I imagine that these tanks held different refined products, so the flashpoints would have been all over the shop.
They are usually laid out so this sort of thing can't happen. I mean tanks next to each other have sympathetic compounds, as opposed to say gas and acetone.
I suspect that once hemel hempstead cools down,lol they will find that storage procedure was broken, and that they were storing stuff illegaly.
They are usually laid out so this sort of thing can't happen. I mean tanks next to each other have sympathetic compounds, as opposed to say gas and acetone.
I suspect that once hemel hempstead cools down,lol they will find that storage procedure was broken, and that they were storing stuff illegaly.
It could be even simpler, that a tank leaked something volatile, a large vapor cloud formed, untill it found an ignition source.
Police have admitted that George Best was not buried in N Ireland last week.
In retrospect it was probably a bad idea to have him cremated in Hemel Hempstead.
Police have admitted that George Best was not buried in N Ireland last week.
In retrospect it was probably a bad idea to have him cremated in Hemel Hempstead.
Lol :lol: