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Yeah I’ve been thinking about that too... harsh as it may sound, big concrete cylinders fillded with loose grain is pretty much the best pillow to cushion the b
by qubex 6y ago
Yeah I’ve been thinking about that too... harsh as it may sound, big concrete cylinders fillded with loose grain is pretty much the best pillow to cushion the blow you could think of.
EDIT: As for the grain silos being “single points of failure”, that depends on the scope of the system you’re considering. Nationally, yeah... but internationally, there’s plenty and it’s being shipped in. So there’s actually more redundancy than the narrow-scope analysis would suggest. The 85% figure is just a figment of where one draws the borders, and national borders probably don’t have much valence in the given context (fortunately). Now, if we were speaking about 85% of the world’s ability to ship grain... now that would be a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.
- HPsquared 6y agoThere probably won't be much shipping of any kind in that port for a while... Hopefully they can make other arrangements.
- secondcoming 6y agoI did consider that the dust present in a grain silo could make made a 'flour bomb' and compounded the explosion. Maybe not
- qubex 6y agoTo be perfectly honest, that was my very first reaction when I first watched the video: it looked like the fuming aftermath of Something Really Bad, and then BOOM! Something Really Bad unfolded on-screen. I figured that it must’ve been some kind of aerosol/powder combustion triggered by the fireworks’ conflagration, but then more learned analyses of cloud hue and knowledge of what was actually stored in situ (correctly) overrode my initial reaction and the fertilizer was identified as the main culprit.