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Geological Wonders: Hell Gate

Labels: Arkansas, Business, Chesapeake Energy, Derweze, Energy, United States, United States Geological Survey, Uzbekistan |

Called by locals The Door to Hell, this place in Uzbekistan is situated near the small town of Darvaz. When geologists were drilling for gas, 35 years ago, they suddenly found an underground cavern that was so big, all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas, so they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it has been burning. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite.

WORLD'S FIRST SOLAR POWERED STADIUM IN TAIWAN

Labels: 2009 World Games, Energy, Olympic Games, Photovoltaics, Rugby sevens, Sport, Ten-pin bowling, Toyo Ito |

Taiwan recently finished construction on a solar-powered stadium that will generate 100% of its electricity from photovoltaic technology Designed by Toyo Ito, the 50,000-seat arena will officially open later this year to welcome the 2009 World Games which features many sports not included in the Olympics such as parachuting, tenpin bowling and rugby sevens.