Can Turkmenistan's 'Gates of Hell' Be Closed?

This 230-ft-wide pit in the middle of a desert in Turkmenistan has been on fire for the last 50 years, releasing methane gas into the atmosphere. Can it be stopped? 🔥

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[danbee]

Couldnt they just cover it with more surrounding sand??? Thats the most potential of starving the ignition reaction.

[cathleenstarvish]

Oh, that’s terrible. Somebody’s doing something worse than the United States. Oh my goodness.

[bos]

If that's not a sign to move away from the energy sources we've been using then what is?

[klimatbluffen]

Co2 levels have fallen from 7000 ppm to today's 420 ppm in the last 65 million years and when we reach 150 ppm co2 then all life on earth is gone.

[robem]

"...releasing methane into the atmosphere"
Ahh yes, the methane that is burned right then and there to CO2 and water i assume is released into the atmosphere 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[GrfKvlt]

I love how this quickly turned into far left propaganda.

[boognewsnetwork]

Okay but the US should also deal with the perma-coalfire in Pennsylvania that's been burning since the 1940s.
There's lot's of these.

[joelange]

And yet, me, a Canadian has to pay carbon tax, frick our pm is a super

[danielescobar]

qhen did the fence go up? WHO MESSED THAT UP FOR EVERYONE LOL

[TheTastefulThickness]

"I dont understand climate but climate change!"

[Abouton]

Of course it is, and the tech is old, the reaching of the gas escaping is two tier net zero hell, I know people in Aberdeen, Scotland that would turn that into profit filled Use of a naturally occurring phenomena.
These tourists I bet their favourite colour after green is orange, a % of some worked to get there and coulda fixed a million sighs

[XBladeG]

Prometheus: "I give humanity the gift of fire"

Humanity: "Climate change! Let's eliminate fire!"

[shallow]

"according to the guardian" I'm out goodbye