Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoHow does the Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan keep burning? How come it just act like a volcano and just blow it's top or something? Or run out of energy?message-squaremessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down11
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareHow does the Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan keep burning? How come it just act like a volcano and just blow it's top or something? Or run out of energy?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square2linkfedilink
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·20 days agoIt’s sitting on top of a natural gas field. Gas in the crater is burning up all the oxygen, so the gas underground can’t explode (think of a lighter). It will eventually run out of gas.
It’s sitting on top of a natural gas field. Gas in the crater is burning up all the oxygen, so the gas underground can’t explode (think of a lighter). It will eventually run out of gas.