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Re:Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage by reaperducer on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:26PM (#17145601)
>So is a flour mill explosion

Having witnesses a corn silo explosion, I was unprepared for the ferocity of that ignition.

>So is a wind turbine explosion

Off to YouTube...

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Re:Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage by dwyerm on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:39PM (#17147533)
The Hornslet collapse[1] is the one I was thinking about in particular. It is especially daunting now that I've toured a site for myself. Those things are huge!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornslet_wind-turbine_collapse

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