45 years of free heat and no plan to harness it.

Concern and action is needed, he said, because of the environmental impact -- especially of mega-fires burning in India, China and elsewhere in Asia. One coal fire in northern China, for instance, is burning over an area more than 3,000 miles wide and almost 450 miles long.

"The direct and indirect economic losses from coal fires are huge," said Paul M. van Dijk, a Dutch scientist who is tracking the Chinese blazes via satellite.

He estimated that the Chinese fires alone consume 120 million tons of coal annually. That's almost as much as the annual coal production in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois combined.
Studies have been done on this go to:
http://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/pdf/IGAstandard/SGW/2005/chiasson.pdf

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[josephdupont]

Some trees make more CO2 in their life spans than O2. So what do you do.

Send mirrors to africa and have them heat their pots with the sun rather than marching around killing trees..

[fwacknstack]

Uhhh does anybody else think its wierd theres a cemetery with a underground smoke stack next door i think they are burnin bodys ,hows it smell

[josephdupont]

I did not see that.. good find.

[chaz706]

Environmentalism was never about the environment.

Like many leftist movements... it's about control.

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

Check out the Wikipedia article on Centralia, PA. Local sign: "Walking or driving in this area could result in serious injury or death. Dangerous gases are present. Ground is prone to sudden collapse." It would be hard to justify capitol investment in the hellmouth. What about the human cost? If it could be automated, maybe, but automation is expensive and any maintenance workers are put in extreme danger. There's a reason this place is a dead ghost town.

[Trillion89]

@josephdupont No, they don't. If they did (make more CO2 than O2), they would not grow.

[enfieldpolice]

its the gates of hell

[MrNilsanderson]

do something brainiac, i can point out s@#t all day....



[roymaitland]

Grow op vent!

[mksboysal]

There is a free energy! Totally shame no one is harvesting it.

[CoolDre80]

Who wants heat from Silent Hill?

[SuperGozzy]

probably right furnace for cremating the bodies from the cemeteriees funeral home

[2bornot2b1984]

What do you mean, "underground fire"

[tehutimes1]

Oh conservatives never control anything?Ever hear of gun permits being a form

of voter id but not college or public housing ids like in tennessee?How a school district was closed down in virginia rather than intergrate?Rightists do their fair share of control."Marching around killing trees" is done in asia,south america,and north america "also".Some restaraunts cook with wood indoors or have grills or smokers outside cooking ribs with wood.

[jgdogg441]

@josephdupont The notion of trees producing more CO2 than O2 is nothing more than a mere myth. Yes they do produce CO2 through "respiration" at night when photosynthesis isn't occurring, however the ratio of CO2 to O2 production ALWAYS tips in favor of the O2 side of the equation. As long as the tree exists, it is producing more O2 than CO2. It doesn't matter if it is a sapling, or a fully grown old tree.