Chronicles Chinese have often talked about in recent years, of fires in coal mines, however, is rarely pointed out that many of them are still raging out of control and may even decades, destroying varying amounts from 2 to 20 tons of coal. The area most affected by this phenomenon is the Inner Mongolia (not to be confused with the State of Mongolia), an autonomous region located in the northern territories of China is characterized by a band of coal deposits that extends for a length of 5,000 km and has an estimated coal extraction in 2009 to 637 million tonnes. Even if the news coming from China are not complete, it is certain that many underground coal fires continue to flare up in that area, at least 10 square miles constantly steaming release toxins into the atmosphere and greenhouse gases. Most of these fires are caused by bad practices "data missing".
To date, nearly 200 million yuan (29.3 million dollars) were allocated by local authorities to extinguish the fire by mid-2010 by immediate extraction of coal fire risk and the suffocation of the existing flames with sand and other materials such as sewage.
According to a report made by Greenpeace, the Energy Foundation and WWF, the coal is, for China, 70% of the energy potential. In addition to providing energy, il'uso Coal produces 85% of emissions of sulfur dioxide, 67% of nitrogen dioxide, 80% of carbon dioxide emissions, and creates, with its production, 25% of waste water.
Despite China's coal mines are among the deadliest in the world (killing an average of 13 people a day), the prize for the longest underground fire is, however, be attributed to the burst in Centralia, a town the United States about 100 miles from Philadelphia. Whitish and skeletal trees, broken roads that seem to have been affected by a violent earthquake and a strong smell of sulfur is stagnating everywhere. The underground fire was developed in 1962 and today, after almost 50 years, is not known what sparked the fire in the underground mining of Centralia, perhaps the fermentation of waste in an abandoned chimney of the disused mine, perhaps ignite Coal or incident never understood. The fact is that the fire began to spread with violence and at first they tried every means to tame it. But despite the $ 12 million spent by the U.S. government continues to burn coal seam underground.
Fonte: (Xinqua)
To date, nearly 200 million yuan (29.3 million dollars) were allocated by local authorities to extinguish the fire by mid-2010 by immediate extraction of coal fire risk and the suffocation of the existing flames with sand and other materials such as sewage.
According to a report made by Greenpeace, the Energy Foundation and WWF, the coal is, for China, 70% of the energy potential. In addition to providing energy, il'uso Coal produces 85% of emissions of sulfur dioxide, 67% of nitrogen dioxide, 80% of carbon dioxide emissions, and creates, with its production, 25% of waste water.
Despite China's coal mines are among the deadliest in the world (killing an average of 13 people a day), the prize for the longest underground fire is, however, be attributed to the burst in Centralia, a town the United States about 100 miles from Philadelphia. Whitish and skeletal trees, broken roads that seem to have been affected by a violent earthquake and a strong smell of sulfur is stagnating everywhere. The underground fire was developed in 1962 and today, after almost 50 years, is not known what sparked the fire in the underground mining of Centralia, perhaps the fermentation of waste in an abandoned chimney of the disused mine, perhaps ignite Coal or incident never understood. The fact is that the fire began to spread with violence and at first they tried every means to tame it. But despite the $ 12 million spent by the U.S. government continues to burn coal seam underground.
Fonte: (Xinqua)
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