Sugar refinery goes boom

[Nitemare]

Not so sweet

Seems sugar dust caught on fire and resulted in an explosion and fireball 5-6 times as high as the tallest trees.

 

[40Hands]

Cool color. Too bad their isn't a vid.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Not so sweet

Seems sugar dust caught on fire and resulted in an explosion and fireball 5-6 times as high as the tallest trees.

that must've made for some wicked cotton candy.

 

[eplebnista]

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Not so sweet

Seems sugar dust caught on fire and resulted in an explosion and fireball 5-6 times as high as the tallest trees.

yea alot like a grain elevator going, really big bang

 

[darkxshade]

sugar is combustable? :shocked:

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: darkxshade
sugar is combustable? :shocked:

yes when its ground into a power and airborn, Flour is the same way, grain elevator explosions are nasty

 

[Modelworks]

yeah , you can even make a flour bomb with a canister and a candle.
Any fine dust will work.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Flour-Bomb_1/

 

[40Hands]

yeah it's the reason things like powdered non-dairy creamer has a warning to keep it away from open flame.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Great, now sugar prices are going to go up.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Great, now sugar prices are going to go up.

just in time for Valentine's Day

 

[0roo0roo]

grain flour is bad or worse
big kaboom http://www.cnn.com/US/9806/10/grain.elevator/

 

[BrokenVisage]

High-fructose Corn Syrup was unavailable for questioning.

 

[Unheard]

I used to live a few miles from that factory. That's craziness.

to the friends and families of those lost.