Near Darvaz, Uzbekistan, geologists were
drilling for gas. They ended up drilling into a
huge natural cavern that went super deep. The
cavern was filled with gas, so none of them
dared to explore the cavern and how deep it
really went. They decided to light the cavern on
fire, so that no poisonous gases would escape.
This all went down in 1971, and they expected
the fire to burn for a few days or so. Fast
forward to today and the cavern is still ablaze. It
hasn’t stopped burning in over 35 years. It’s
now known as “The Door to Hell”.
Nobody has been able to calculate just how
many tons of natural gas has burned
throughout the years at the cavern sight, but it
is a major loss of a natural resource and a total
waste. They definitely should have done a little
extra math or exploring before lighting a cavern
on fire wasting millions of dollars of natural
resources.

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I think its better..prevents the risk of methane getting into the atmosphere.. a deadly gas

bqlekan:
I think its better..prevents the risk of methane getting into the atmosphere.. a deadly gas

I think burning it is worst. If it had been left alone maybe a proper way to make use of it today would have emerge.

Blakjewelry:

I think burning it is worst. If it had been left alone maybe a proper way to make use of it today would have emerge.

no, it was an accidental discovery and the escaping gas can't be stopped. The risk of getting methane into the atmosphere was well avoided by burning the gas..

bqlekan:
no, it was an accidental discovery and the escaping gas can't be stopped. The risk of getting methane into the atmosphere was well avoided by burning the gas..

Well I nature has it own way of balancing itself, apart from volcano burning is process initiated by man thereby adding more carbon to the atmosphere thereby confusing nature's own design

Blakjewelry:

Well I nature has it own way of balancing itself, apart from volcano burning is process initiated by man thereby adding more carbon to the atmosphere thereby confusing nature's own design

yeah. you are right, nature has its own... methane in the air is more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon, it has a high ability of absorbing heat which there by causing global warming. although it does not linger much on the atmosphere like CO2, but it is deadlier.. I think they did the right thing by setting the cave ablaze