Flaming Dragon

wolf · 01-28-2006, 01:05 AM

From the page you linked to it appears that they tried flushing the mine with water with no success. That, along with other assorted bits of ineptitude, has allowed the coal to continue burning.

Pennsylvania, as I recall from numerous grade school reports, mines the hardest and longest burning variety of coal. That's not helping the situation.

Two points of the fire triangle aren't going away any time soon ... fuel and heat are there in abundance. The only hope of extinguishing the fire is to remove the oxygen.

01-28-2006, 01:05 AM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	From the page you linked to it appears that they tried flushing the mine with water with no success. That, along with other assorted bits of ineptitude, has allowed the coal to continue burning. Pennsylvania, as I recall from numerous grade school reports, mines the hardest and longest burning variety of coal. That's not helping the situation. Two points of the fire triangle aren't going away any time soon ... fuel and heat are there in abundance. The only hope of extinguishing the fire is to remove the oxygen. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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