Posted on 06/10/2019 3:45:39 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A large puddle of tar encroached on the sidewalk and natural gas appeared to rise from the street of the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles Friday.
CBSLA’s Brittany Hopper was standing near the puddle located across the street from The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, a national natural landmark where tar has been seeping up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
But the tourists — like Rick Stahl from the Pacific Northwest — had one more story to tell when he gets back home.
“We’re from Seattle,” Stahl said, “and you don’t see this oozing out of the streets. It’s amazing.”
“You see a little bit of tar oozing up between the pavement,” Kogan says, “all over the neighborhood. That’s not unusual but this seems to be flow tar. I’ve never seen this before.”
Not to mention the constant hissing sound coming from the ground — it’s methane.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
Better get Duane Johnson to warm up the helicopter.
We live near Yellowstone and we have a hot spring that keeps the house warm in the winter.
Very interesting!
Can you tell a bit about how it works?
Guessing???
Hot water piped into a heat exchanger, so the spring water that may have lots of minerals to plug up small pipes, does not flow through the appliances?
Then pumped out of the heat exchanger through a heated floor, fin tube, radiators, fan coil, domestic water heater???
How hot is the spring supply water?
Is it always the same temperature?
And my wife could be as warm as she likes all winter!!
Very nice!
up fum the ground come a bubblin’ crude. oil that is. texas tea.
That’s from the old times.
Now someone else owns the mineral/oil/ air rights.
They get the gold, you get the shaft.
When I was young and visited the tar pits I secretly feared that I would get caught in a heretofore undiscovered pit and be swallowed up like T Rex. I guess I avoided that disaster.
At night you can hear them howling, “Collusion! Obstruction! Orange Man bad!”
Like a sticky pad rat trap!!!
a mere 200 Million years ago, tar underfoot was an every day occurrence...and we LIKED it!
Almost that long ago it was a Grunt family custom to drive repeatedly over a fresh tarred gravel road for the ‘free undercoating’.
They came from Scotland, they can’t help it.
I recall a FReeper years ago talking about heating their driveway with geothermal (which I found fascinating) Was that you?
If I remember right, they've only found one human skeleton in all the excavations they've done. You wouldn't want to be the second ;-)
Unfortunately, humans also generate hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans. Sorry, that just blows your excuse.
LOL! :)
We can but hope...
“I recall a FReeper years ago talking about heating their driveway with geothermal (which I found fascinating) Was that you?”
Probably is since we heat the driveway that way!
When we first moved in the hot water just flowed through everything and then a couple/few years ago Steve tore everything up and installed a heat exchanger because like you said it’s easier to clean. I’m not really sure of what all he did with it so forgive me for not being that mechanical. I do remember Steve bitching about rotting out the pipes.
The temperature for the hot water varies and sometimes a lot. Like this morning it’s coming out at 260F but sometimes it’s hotter and sometimes as cool as maybe just 180F. But it is ALWAYS too hot to touch when it first comes out of the ground.
By the time it gets to our hot tub it’s down to 102 to 104 and that spills into our pool where it’s in the 80’s all year long.
Winter or summer has no effect on the temps of the water.
It also smells bad but you get used to it.
Thank you!
We have an old house with hot water heat and added a heated tile floor last summer, using a gas boiler for the heat.
A fun project, but more fun if the hot water part was free!
Not too bad the WM boiler is 96% efficient.
Thanks again.
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