63 Year Coal Fire....can't Help Global Warming!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2024610/ghost-town-on-fire-63-years-dark-tourism

You'd think the no 1 nation would find a way to extinguish this fire.

[Untitled]

you would think so yes. they should. 

[webbo3]

I read about this in Bill Brysons book A Walk in the woods.

[tomus42]

I've heard about this before.

I think it would be a bit like trying to extinguish a volcano. Ie not possible. 

They just have to leave it burning.

[ToraToraTora]

Admittedly with no study at all, it seems to me that it's a seam of coal. Surely they could create some sort of culvert system to funnel water down there so over time rain etc or possibly a near by river could be diverted temporarily.

 

[Hymie]

This youtube video explains how this disaster came about (man-made) and attempts to extinguish it (why it is so difficult to achieve).

 

 

[ToraToraTora]

cheers hymie that's very useful.