Turkmenistan To Close "Gates Of Hell" Gas Fire

OilPrice.com ^ | Jan 10 2022 | Irina Slav

[texas booster]

The article mentioned that they tried to put it out during the Soviet years.

Another great idea that didn’t work ... but it does make me wonder what they tried.

[texas booster]

That's because it's a memento of Soviet era resource management and, as a communist/socialist disaster, is immune from criticism. In woke epistemology, just as racism can only occur among white people, environmental despoliation is only attributable to capitalism.

Sphinx, truer words have seldom been spoken.

[jjotto]

You can likely remember when you’d have gotten 30 insulting responses by now.

Sad what’s happened to FR.

[texas booster]

Since FR has fewer posters now than many years ago, I try to find out of the way articles that will hopefully help us learn something, and even get a few of us to post replies.

You can likely remember when you’d have gotten 30 insulting responses by now.

I can get 30 insulting replies just by excepting a blog post, which (when thinking about it) probably deserves the heckling.

[Eagles6]

CO2 makes up .04% of the atmosphere.

Some estimates guess that human activity is responsible for 2% of that.

[Uber-Eng]

“ Seriously, over 50 years of natural gas burning and not one peep from Greta”

Yup. Do the calculations on the global warming there and let us know if they’ve even heard a peep from her.

[G Larry]

ya, no kiddin’...so has any hope of putting this out...

[usurper]

Only way I could think to put it out would be to flood the hole quickly.

I would just fill it with cement. Yes I know it would be expensive.

[Scrambler Bob]

Then, in 2010, Berdymukhamedov again ordered experts to find a way to extinguish the fire, but was unsuccessful as well.
= = =

When Brandon finds out, he will want to keep it burning.

But with his success rate, it will go out.

[SuperLuminal]

"One previous attempt failed back in Soviet times"

The Soviets did accomplish the equivalent on one of their "fires" by closing the hole with an atomic blast... Very successful...

[GreyFriar]

I’m sure that if he requests it, all of the Hollywood globull warming fanatics will fly there to help him pour water on the flames.

[Graybeard58]

Red Adair - June 18, 1915 – August 7, 2004