There are no written Soviet records, no logs, no official drilling reports, and no confirmation that they'd lit it intentionally – but there's no disputing a ~100-foot-deep (~30-m), 226-foot-wide (69-m) pit of relentless fiery fury that's been burning for around 50 years in the Karakum Desert of…

there’s no disputing a ~100-foot-deep (~30-m), 226-foot-wide (69-m) pit of relentless fiery fury that’s been burning for around 50 years in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan

  • troed@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Hope so. Burning the methane to CO2 is a lot better than releasing it as is for the climate.