Door to Hell or The Darvaza gas crater,Turkmenistan……
Door to Hell or The Darvaza gas crater,Turkmenistan……
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Friday, August 12, 2022
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Apparently it’s actually less harmful for the environment to let it burn than it would be if we were to extinguish it somehow.
That reminds me of the city of Centralia and Pennsylvania
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
Doesn’t darvaza just mean door?
Do people dump bodies in there?
Turkmenistan’s President once did donuts in a car next to this crater to prove he was not dead [link](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/06/asia/turkmenistan-president-gateway-to-hell-intl/index.html)
If you’re looking for a fun way to occupy 20 minutes and learn about Turkmenistan look up the Last Week Tonight episode. What a hoot.
What’s preventing them to harness this heat to produce electricity?
Is it the location? Could they build here? Is it too difficult to engineer to the point it’s not cost effective?
Well that can’t be good
Netherrack
Hm, I didn’t know it was caused by people.
Would love to see this in the rain.
Yes. Drilling for gas. That’s what they want you to think.
And not a result of a secret war the Soviets were engaged in against demons from hell.
Why cant they just smoother the fire with dirt and gravel? I know its running on the apparently limitless gas leakage, but you can still smother gas fires
Door to Hell
Fun fact, darvaza means door in farsi
Can’t we put a dome on it and use it to generate electricity some how?
So it was the Soviets that caused global warming…
I always forget this phenomenon is in Horse Fucker Dictator Land.
That’s my ass after eating spicy food.
Isn’t this causing a lot of global warming? Burning since 1971. How about finding a way to create a partial vacuum and start sucking it up.
[here is state television of the president of Turkmenistan doing doughnuts around it ](https://youtu.be/XOTPht4kAL0)
I just want to know the source of the background music. No luck with Shazam 🙁
So are they gonna make it into a power plant or something?
Holy Fire!
Well that sucks.
Living in Turkmenistan is already hell and this happens lol
It’s pretty much the North Korea of Central Asia
Im lucky enough to have been there. One of those things where the photos really dont do it justice.
let’s just appreciate the fact that the president of Turkministan started doing donuts around it just to show off
u/savevideo
Wasn’t this in a James Bond movie? The world is not enough??
What about rain 🌧
There’s a coal mine in PA(USA), that is still burning underground.
From wikipedia’s entry on coal seam fires:
>The oldest coal fire in China is in Baijigou (白芨沟, in Dawukou District of Shizuishan City, Ningxia) and is said to have been burning since the Qing Dynasty (before 1912).
Dollar bills burning in real life right here… what a gold mine!
In another place I hear it was an accident.
Could you theoretically displace the oxygen and put the fires out?
So apparently one simply CAN walk into Mordor.
This could be one of those things where in 1000 years if its still burning and human society has long since collapsed, that people will think its literally a door to hell.
Darvaza aka Darwaja literally translates to “The Door”
I wonder where this is, it was hardly ever mentioned in the clip..
/s
great place for a thermal energy plant
Incredibly sexy dude
They should harness the heat off it to make electricity
The crater is made out of netherack
just think of all the electricity they could of generated
and i feel guilty about driving my car .
It’s fitting cause it’s in one of the worst countries in the world.