There’s a crater in Russia that has been burning for 35 years:
For decades, the fires within the pit have been burning without end, fed by a seemingly unlimited pocket of natural gas. The “Door to Hell” might easily be placed among the world’s most incredible natural wonder–that is, if it wasn’t man-made.
If this is hell, where are all the kinky torture parties those books and kooks keep talking about?
On the other side of course! This is a door.
At least they use clean burning natural gas in hell.
Proof that environmentalism is of the Devil.
“..if it wasn’t man-made.”
Natual gas is man-made…lol…who knew?
The hole and the fire are man made.
Does anyone ever go to this place and roast hotdogs I wonder?
Hell s’mores FTW.
It’s in Uzbekistan, not Russia.
Why isn’t some of the energy of this heat being captured for electricity? An old-fashioned steam turbine could generate a lot. What a waste.
Wasn’t Dante’s lowest level of Hell frigid ice wasteland? In a land of permafrost you would think that would be the indication the doorway to hell was there.
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Wow, that’s interesting.
It actually looks like it’s close to Darvaza, Turkmenistan.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=40.252919,58.44173&spn=0.009924,0.02178&t=h&z=16
Harnessing that energy does not seem likely. There does not appear to be much for population centers around there and just getting control of that blaze must be a challenge. Just look at Centralia, PA. That coal mine fire has been going since 1962. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkHfnp2czZQ