Submitted on behalf of user "crutchy" #179, who writes:
"I don't seem to be able to use the 'Submit Story' feature at the moment... I just thought I'd flag a little saga currently unfolding near where I live. An open cut coal mine that supplies coal to a nearby 1600MW power station in Victoria, Australia, has been on fire for over a week. This could threaten electricity generation in the area and might have been deliberately set.
What might be more interesting is the lack of news media attention to it."
[Ed. Note] we're working on fixing article submission, thanks for getting this to us via alternate means.
(Score: 3, Informative) by beardedchimp on Monday February 17 2014, @06:05PM
Ha! That fire is but a youth stepping on my lawn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain [wikipedia.org] has been burning for 6000 years.
(Score: 3, Informative) by dilbert on Monday February 17 2014, @06:06PM
(Score: 1) by beardedchimp on Monday February 17 2014, @06:10PM
Yep. The chinese are experts at putting them out since they started hundreds of them.
(Score: 1) by E_NOENT on Monday February 17 2014, @06:17PM
pssst: you forgot the oblig. wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mine_fire#China [wikipedia.org]
I'm not in the business... I *am* the business.
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Monday February 17 2014, @06:55PM
You mean since the world was created? Wow!
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek