Posted on 05/17/2008 2:47:52 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
No doubt producing more CO2 than most countries do. Not that that matters.
lolz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza
“Darvaza underground is naturally rich in natural gas. In 1971, during a drilling, geologists accidentally found an underground cavern filled with natural gas. The ground on which the drilling rig was placed collapsed, leaving a large gaping hole exposed with a diameter of about 50-100 meters. To avoid poisonous gases coming out of the hole, it was decided to let the gases burn. As of 2008, gases in the underground cavern are still burning without interruption.”
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You convinced me! Let's do it!
Centralia Mine Fire
“Centralia, Pennsylvania — No one knows exactly how it started, but a coal vein has been burning under the Pennsylvania mining town of Centralia since 1961.”
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2196
“In May 1962, a fire started in a garbage dump in an abandoned stripping pit near the town. It reached a large coal vein running under the town and started the coal burning. It has been burning ever since.”
http://shulersnet.com/coalcracker/fire.htm
“I learned recently that Pennsylvania has the distinction of being home to the largest number of underground coal fires in the United States. And further, that some of these fires have been burning continuously for upwards of 40 years; that they’ve obliterated entire towns; that they vent an unimaginable amount of carbon dioxide and other gases into the already overburdened atmosphere; and that, for the most part, very little is being done about them.”
http://itotd.com/articles/346/pennsylvania-coal-fires/
-the topper of all the toppers-
The Red Ash Mine Fire
This fire started on the property of the Red Ash Coal Company in Laurel Run, PA. The fire was discovered around 1915. The coal company took measures to put it out, such as sealing openings and flushing tunnels. They thought it was out, until in 1922 it was in fact found that the fire spread to underground coal seams. In the 1960’s people along the border of Wilkes-Barre Township and Laurel Run had to leave homes, schools, shops, and churches because of the fire. Smoke and stream vent from pipes along several holes that connect to the mines. The fire is still burning today. Steam and smoke can be seen from the valley below in several spots.
http://www.fifedrum.org/rhinohug/Otherfires.html [much more on this page]
“Somebody get a hose!”
It’d take an awful lot of beer to piss that campfire out!
Awesome!!
There is sure a heck of a lot of coal in PA. Most of it is cleaner burning anthracite, I think.
It’s cool all right, but that EnglishRussia site is just as prone to errors as Pravda. I did a bit of searching, and the Wikipedia entry has a map showing Darvaza in the middle of Turkmenistan, not Uzbekistan, and the gas was discovered in 1971, not 1973.
HINT: Don't believe everything you read in WikiPedia.
Google "Darvaz" and every other story I see says Uzbekistan.
Google “Darvaza” however, and you get Turkmenistan.
And the actual ‘Door to Hell’ we’re talking about.
Yes, I did another Google search, and half the pages I found on the hellhole say it’s in Turkmenistan, the other half say it’s in Uzbekistan. I wrote about it in today’s messages for my blog, but now I don’t know which Central Asian country I’ll need a visa for, if I want to go see it.
http://xenohistorian.wordpress.com/
Hmmm. There are lots of sites reporting about Darvaz and the Door to Hell.
:’) Travel to Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan... great idea. ;’) Although I wouldn’t mind seeing Samarkand.
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