Hell’s Door vs. the Incandescent Light Bulb

by Doug Ross | December 4, 2011 9:53 pm

In the middle of the Karakoum (Turkmenistan) desert, close to the tiny nomadic village of Darvaza, there is a crater about 100 meters in diameter and more than 25 meters deep. It is called “Hell’s Door”. Inside this well, a fire has been burning for more than 40 years.

A Soviet prospecting mission began here in the fifties. In 1971, a drilling operation exposed an underground cavity that discharged enormous quantities of gas. Thinking the supply of gas would last but a few weeks, Soviet engineers decided to torch the hole. And it’s been burning ever since. The intense heat coming from the crater allows visitors to approach Hell’s Door only for a few minutes at a time because of the unbearable temperature.

At night, the hole looks like Dante’s Inferno: the fire burns in all its magnificence, giving the well the look of a volcanic burning crater.

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40 years of intense, volcanic heat emitted by a massive, burning hellhole.

But you and I have to give up our incandescent light-bulbs[1].

For the children. Oh, and the global warming scam[2], too. But mostly the children. And Ewoks.

Endnotes:
  1. But you and I have to give up our incandescent light-bulbs: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/02/video-reason-tvs-remy-misses-the-incandescent-light-bulb/
  2. the global warming scam: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-was-moment-when-rise-of-oceans.html

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