Wasted energy for 45 years with no end in sight

[Alienpimp33]

Maybe you should start asking, how many mines in America are burning..? You'll be surprised.

[rabbitphobia]

Get your frying pan out next time and fry some eggs that way it wont be wasted.

[fuhmeregan]

Wells. State resources should go to enough wells in the region to pump/disperse enough subsurface water to extinguish coal fires. This is around the world a massive, stupid emission of CO2 greenhouse gas, 1., and 2. a wastage of carbon resources for 'no return' beyond the destruction of the environment.

[IIIJFRIII]

its just to big a problem, i mean its been like 40 something years and they dident do shit. it would b well over a billion dollors to TRY and fix it. and u cant refine it because that land caves in a is to unstable u damn hippie liberal.

[pronatalist]

To IIIJFRIII:

Couldn't it be, that there's actually way too much other cheap energy or coal, that trying to tap a fire already under the ground, just isn't feasible? How? Maybe a really long extension cord will do the trick?

Seems the affordable solution is to move on, and mine coal nearby or elsewhere, before it burns too.

Who's the hippie? I'm very conservative and very pro-life and pro-population

Cost-benefit consideration, tells us it's probably better to let below ground fires grow wild

[corysmolly]

you idiot hippies and liberals don't want coal burned for energy. this guy is in the bush/cheney lets use all the fossil fuels we can and screw the air and greenhouse gasses rule camp.. hippies and liberals want to run stuff off of urine and fart and hemp.. you fool this dude is a conservative not a hippie..

[zeporahjane1966]

Stupid hippie. Why don't you plant your butt in one of those hot spots and have yourself a protest.

[corysmolly]

you are a simple person zep and when you talk your ass shows...

[zeporahjane1966]

Hippie. giffe00 is right. y'all need to buy the land and plant your communes on it. Since when do hippies embrace the internet, anyway?? Get a good look at my ass corysmolly?

[corysmolly]

while, just responding to something we wrote a month ago.. way to stay current there zep.. and we all see your ass, its kind of hard to miss...might think of a good diet and some exercise.. and lay off the twinkies.. good luck...

[Nofxthepirate]

I know this is like 6 months after your comment, but I just gotta say.

You're making fun of him for replying a month late, but you replied to his original comment 3 months later, so you're one to talk...

[aaronpourazar]

yeah still 150 years left so they have time

[joeyriver2]

lemonade is good...bottle that sh*t up

[giffe00]

Buy the land and do it!

Why are you posting this? Don't question, make it happen.

Typical whining, let someone else figure it out, type movie..

[fiik420]

they harnes the energy from it because the ground is unstable. they do see the point of building a energy harnessing plant somewhere where it mite fall into the ground. if youve ever been there you can see where the ground is subsiding, even so centralia kicks ass

[pronatalist]

To fiik420:

Maybe they can find some place far enough away to put the building where it won't fall in, and then run pipes to it. But then subsidance of the ground breaks the pipes? And how hot is the fire anyway? Coal burns hot enough for blacksmithing? So put the pipes "near" the fire, then they are soon in the fire?

I don't hear of many volcanos tapped for energy, so if it was feasible, wouldn't somebody be doing it already? Too many better sources of energy it would appear

Can't control it

[josephdupont]

they never stop them.. they burn themselves out so capture the energy

[olemann77]

It would probably not be cost-effective.

[stupidtreehugger]

The Money Masters, Gigatons of cow and pig methane clean fuel are wasted, CH4 100x greenhouse effect of CO2(Global scamming to further tax and herd people off prime land eg Green_House_Conspiracy on video.google).

THE HEMP REVOLUTION: ALL our FUEL, PLASTICS AND FIBRES could be clean renewable, as well as it CURES CANCER -Dupont killed it for PETRO MURDER. RESIST EVIL AND IT WILL FLEE FROM YOU THE MERCILESS EXPLOITERS INSIST ON THE BOUNTY OF NATURE!

[FAKUAYBABTU]

How could you capture that type of heat? The sulfur dioxide coming out of the burning coal would corrode any metal used extremely quickly. The area burning is also so vast that it cant be capped.

[josephdupont]

how do they capture it in iceland?

please sulfur dioxide was used as a refrigerent .. so how did they contain it.

you run pipes and cap it with insulation.

you just hate to think that there could be so much waste of energy.

[pronatalist]

To FAKUAYBABTU:

Well it is a good question whether that wasted energy could be tapped somehow. However, energy is all around us, and perhaps there are better sources of energy elsewhere?

It could also be that the underground fire fronts are advancing away from any installation to tap the energy, and also that the ground is shifting and unstable. And couldn't coal not yet burned nearby, or from elsewhere, be a more portable source of energy that can be taken away to where needed?

Let it burn.

[erinandcompany]

If they do harness that energy, I hope they put it on the grid and pass along the money saved or made onto the people that live and used to live in Centralia.