mercredi 19 février 2014

Door to Hell

I happened upon a story about a natural gas field that was ignited to deal with poisonous gases. Here is a Wikipedia link; http://ift.tt/YBy5Te


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The scientists set up a drilling rig and camp nearby, and started drilling operations to assess the quantity of gas reserve available at the site. As the Soviets were pleased with the success of finding the gas resources, they started storing the gas.



Large quantities of methane gas were released, however, creating an environmental problem and posing a potential danger to the people of the nearby villages.[citation needed]



Fearing the further release of poisonous gases from the cavern, the scientists decided to burn it off.[1] They thought that it would be safer to burn it than to extract it from underground through expensive methods. Environmentally, setting gas on fire is the next best solution when the circumstances are such that it cannot be extracted for use.[neutrality is disputed] At that time, expectations were that the gas would burn out within a few weeks, but has continued to burn more than four decades after it was set on fire.[1]



Four decades is a long time! It reminded me of the problem in Centralia.

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The Centralia mine fire is a coal seam fire that has been burning underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States since at least May 27, 1962.



Anyone else have a fire burning under them?



Ranb





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