To: HiTech RedNeck
What is the method proposed now to quench the fire? Simply strip mining it would open up a huge barbecue. There isn't one.
Anyone can write a column and make up stuff.
As wonderful as the free-market is, and Ayn Rand notwithstanding, unfettered capitalism isn't magic. There's no financial reason for a company to go in and mine that coal, and the technologies to put it out have failed miserably. Nobody has any serious answer.
18 posted on
05/08/2011 6:38:08 PM PDT by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Gondring
Yeah, putting these out is not a simple thing. Germany had a coal seam burn from 1476 to 1860. I'm not sure how that one went out, it may have just died on its own. Germany has another seam that has been burning since 1688. They haven't quenched it yet.
35 posted on
05/08/2011 7:57:07 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: Gondring
Laurel Run in Wyoming Valley (Wilkes-Barre) has been burning since 1915, that was started by a carbide lamp. What I understand the coal seams in the Centralia-Ashland area run at steep inclines making the fires go real deep compared to the more eastern anthracite fields where the seams are flatter.
I lived in Hazleton when this started and remember one in Asley and we had one in Hazleton off of RT. 940.
50 posted on
05/09/2011 5:28:27 AM PDT by
this_ol_patriot
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner)
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