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Darvaz: The Door to Hell
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| 3-25-08
| John H.Bradley (pics and video)
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.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Russia; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: darvaz; fire; gas; hell
Cool pics and video.
To: blam
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posted on
03/27/2008 3:40:26 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
To: dynachrome
Big ol' campfire.
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posted on
03/27/2008 3:46:06 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat lead.)
To: dynachrome
Wow, neat?
How long has it been, since its discovery? Even Wikipedia has nothing about it.
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posted on
03/27/2008 3:46:39 PM PDT
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: dynachrome
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.
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posted on
03/27/2008 3:50:03 PM PDT
by
oneolcop
(Take off the gloves!)
To: dynachrome
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.
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posted on
03/27/2008 3:52:14 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Vaclav Klaus on global warming skeptics: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
To: dynachrome
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.
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posted on
03/27/2008 3:53:19 PM PDT
by
Red Boots
To: dynachrome
” ...None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so ...”
Hold muh vodka
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posted on
03/27/2008 3:54:35 PM PDT
by
daku
("My dream continues with ferocity, thank you.")
To: dynachrome
So they ignited it There should be an, "it seemed like a good idea at the time (but was actually incredibily BAD)" award for whoever did this.
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posted on
03/27/2008 3:56:50 PM PDT
by
Red Boots
To: dynachrome
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posted on
03/27/2008 3:56:56 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Vaclav Klaus on global warming skeptics: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
To: dynachrome
Wonder if Algore is concerned about all the CO2 being produced.
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:05:14 PM PDT
by
Mogollon
(Vote straight GOP for congress....our only protection against Obama-Clinton, or McCain.)
To: CarrotAndStick
I’m not real sure it is real. The site has a tag of “funny” for the article.
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:06:25 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
To: oneolcop
Doesn’t seem to be close to any civilized parts of the region, so hard to capture any of the heat/gas.
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:07:27 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
To: Fresh Wind
Land is cheap in that town!
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:09:25 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
To: dynachrome
Hah, you can’t fool me, I looked at that video, that is
OBVIOUSLY a UFO landing site!!!!
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:12:20 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Doomonyou
Man, those carbon credits they’ll have to buy for this will cost ‘em a pretty ruble!
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:12:35 PM PDT
by
saganite
To: oneolcop
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.
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:15:43 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
(io)
To: tet68
Oh, I just know a talented Freeper could photoshop
Her Helleryness! into that burning crater.
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:16:50 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Mogollon
Wonder if Algore is concerned about all the CO2 being produced. Nope. He can't extort any money over there.
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:18:11 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat lead.)
To: dynachrome
Communist environmentalism at its best.
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:38:22 PM PDT
by
rmlew
(Grievance politics is a mental illness)
To: rmlew
The entrance to the hollow Earth. The inner world is known to be inhabited by superior beings.
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:51:06 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(Not liking my choices in this election!)
To: tet68
Maybe we can get the Dems to chose their candidate by having Obama and Hitlery have a tug-o-war over the hole.
To: elcid1970
before Kingdom of S.A completed the gas gathering project, the Gas-oil separation plants ran the off gas thru steam type turbines which pumped the oil thru the pipelines. Then it was flared to string flares. To a 15 year old it was much impressive, lighting up the desert for miles around. When I went back 10 years later, the string flares were gone leaving only an emergency flare. These string flares consumed mega bucks of gas. Recovering this gas made the desalt plants possible and allowed the Kingdom to become an exporter of food. barbra ann
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posted on
03/27/2008 5:36:07 PM PDT
by
barb-tex
(Why replace the IRS with anything?)
To: dynachrome
I was thinking of making electricity and sending it over high tension lines to somewhere it could be used, kind along the lines by which we use geothermal energy.
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posted on
03/27/2008 7:22:04 PM PDT
by
oneolcop
(Take off the gloves!)
To: elcid1970
Maybe it's time capitalism rears its ugly head and they start building micro-electricity plants and start stringing power lines.
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posted on
03/27/2008 7:24:45 PM PDT
by
oneolcop
(Take off the gloves!)
To: dynachrome
I’m not real sure it is real. The site has a tag of “funny” for the article. Sure looks real. Checked out this site and there's a video showing it burning and the wind noise coming of it. Sure it could be a fake but it looks like the real deal to me.
Door to hell
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posted on
03/27/2008 9:06:15 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(su - | echo "All your " | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r | echo "belong to us")
To: Fresh Wind
Our own little bit of hell in Centralia, Pennsylvania Ok, that is just weird, considering that google mapping that and going to satellite view shows a town that looks like it was wiped off the map.
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posted on
03/27/2008 9:07:07 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(su - | echo "All your " | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r | echo "belong to us")
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