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Geoffrey from ‪@thelandofchem‬ talks about how Sidbury Hill and similar Wiltshire hills are massive lumps of calcium carbonate chalk.
Creating thunderstorms requires specific conditions: wind, directional wind change (shear), lift pushing air into upper atmosphere, heat, humidity, and convection.
Here's how the system works: Lightning strike converts calcium carbonate chalk to calcium oxide and CO2. That prepared calcium oxide waits - stored energy ready for activation.

When you want to generate a thunderstorm, you open the spring. Water floods down the reservoir and flows over the calcium oxide hill face.
Water reacts with calcium oxide - exothermic reaction generating heat, producing calcium hydroxide. Wind sweeping off the cliff face carries that hot, humid air up into the atmosphere.
That provides all the necessary conditions: wind, directional change, heat, humidity, convective air pocket rising into atmosphere. Result: cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud formation.

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