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He says, too, that “this was not some magical cyber-attack in which the batteries spontaneously combusted by some clever bit of code as people may initially have thought or suspected”.

In one incident, a Think Pink waste pile close to a nature reserve burned for two months after spontaneously combusting.

He wasn’t exactly spontaneously combusting like Kevin “I would love it” Keegan in his 1996 pomp but, speaking last weekend, Clement’s reaction illustrated the tension at the top of the league.

"Modern landfill facilities already capture, upgrade and combust their gas emissions for electricity generation, however, our process creates a much more environmentally impactful and commercially valuable product," he said.

"But because you've combusted the carbon stored in the plants and their organic soils, even the increase in photosynthesis we observe doesn't necessarily translate into more carbon storage in the long run," Kim said.