Big ol' campfire.
Posted on 03/27/2008 3:40:04 PM PDT by dynachrome
Darvaz: The Door to Hell Category: Funny, History, Photos |
This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.
Of interest?
Big ol' campfire.
Wow, neat?
How long has it been, since its discovery? Even Wikipedia has nothing about it.
Interesting. One would think that perhaps they could tap the energy by building a structure that could channel and capture the heat and use it to make steam/electricity.
This has been burning for 35 years, and yet I am being told that I can’t use incandescent light bulbs because of Global Whorming.
I’ve read that the amount of CO2 released in fires like this and coal seams far outweighs all the man-made contributions. They are very hard to stop though.
” ...None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so ...”
Hold muh vodka
There should be an, "it seemed like a good idea at the time (but was actually incredibily BAD)" award for whoever did this.
Wonder if Algore is concerned about all the CO2 being produced.
I’m not real sure it is real. The site has a tag of “funny” for the article.
Doesn’t seem to be close to any civilized parts of the region, so hard to capture any of the heat/gas.
Land is cheap in that town!
Hah, you can’t fool me, I looked at that video, that is
OBVIOUSLY a UFO landing site!!!!
Man, those carbon credits they’ll have to buy for this will cost ‘em a pretty ruble!
I was deployed to Uzbekistan in 2003. Driving from Karshi to Samarkand (roughly north-south in the Idaho-like eastern part), we saw oil wells where they recovered the oil but let the natural gas just burn off for lack of technology. At night it was eerie to see. We knew then this was still the former Soviet Union.
Oh, I just know a talented Freeper could photoshop
Her Helleryness! into that burning crater.
Nope. He can't extort any money over there.
Communist environmentalism at its best.
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