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Infamous 'Gates of Hell' Crater, Blazing For Decades, Set to Be Extinguished
https://www.sciencealert.com ^
| 12 JANUARY 2022
| BRANDON SPECKTOR
Posted on 01/12/2022 7:53:42 AM PST by Red Badger
Edited on 01/12/2022 8:15:39 AM PST by Jim Robinson.
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To: hinckley buzzard
Barnum and Bailey Circus has some tents they are not using..................
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01/12/2022 8:08:41 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Jonty30
I would think something like that too. Smother it with it’s own exhaust. Also, that might help contain the gas, which will continue to come off after it’s extinguished...
To: Red Badger
Can’t they just nuke it? The Soviets did that sort of thing all the time.
To: Telepathic Intruder
The Soviets created the problem!........................
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posted on
01/12/2022 8:10:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: 1217Chic
WILL HAPPEN SOON ENOUGH..................
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posted on
01/12/2022 8:12:01 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
This is a job for......Boots and Coots.
To: Fester Chugabrew
Maybe put a windmill beside it...................
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posted on
01/12/2022 8:13:09 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
have stacey abrams sit on it...
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posted on
01/12/2022 8:14:10 AM PST
by
heavy metal
(smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
To: PGR88
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posted on
01/12/2022 8:14:13 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Worlds worst firefighters, still battling a fire for over 50 years.
To: heavy metal
It’s a Muslim country. No pork allowed..................
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posted on
01/12/2022 8:14:50 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: 1217Chic
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posted on
01/12/2022 8:15:42 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: Red Badger
To: heavy metal; Red Badger
Tie for best posts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
01/12/2022 8:17:24 AM PST
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: Red Badger
As a flow tester working on the Mesa gas fields in Wyoming, they burn off the gas through a stack. Just releasing the gas without burning it is considered a environmental hazard
Putting the fire out doesn’t stop the danger of the gas flowing.they need to stop that somehow
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01/12/2022 8:19:33 AM PST
by
South Dakota
(Patriotism is the new terrorism )
To: Red Badger
Its not that big of a hole. Build a dome over it to smother the fire. Then collect and process the natural gas and sell it.
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posted on
01/12/2022 8:21:32 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
To: Red Badger
Yes but they also fixed similar problems with nukes. There are at least 2 cases in the 60’s in which the Soviets detonated smallish underground nukes to put out natural gas fires.
To: Red Badger
Seems to me they could smother the fire by covering the hole with a huge tarp I think that they should cast the world's largest iron grate and then construct the world's largest teapot. Sorry Chester West Virginia.
To: Red Badger
Yeah, the Hellmouth was a constant source of problems for Buffy.
To: Jonty30
The volume of the crater is approximately 165,000 cubic meters, assuming an average depth of 60 meters. If you can pump in a
lot of nitrogen or carbon dioxide quickly under a cover as you draw the cover across it you may quench the fire. Then you pour on the water to make sure it does not reignite.
This depends heavily on how much heat is rising from the soil/rocks after the fire is quenched - can you design a cover that will last long enough to quench the fire and not be destroyed from heat from hot soil/rocks?
An interesting engineering problem for sure.
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