With The World Scrambling For Energy,

I would have thought by now someone would have tapped into these, about 35 years ago a hole was drilled near the small town of Darvaz in Uzbekistan, a gas build up stopped work so it was decided to burn it off, well things went from bad to worse, a explosion took place which formed a 100 foot across hole and took all of the equipment with it, well 35 years on it is still burning merrily away with no sign of it stopping any time soon, the question is could a parallel shaft be driven some way away and tap into what seems to be an almost unlimited supply of gas? and for another man made disaster go to Centralia, Pennsylvania it no longer exists on some maps, but a great place for free heat, the story starts in1962 along the outskirts of town when trash was burned in the pit of an abandoned strip mine, which connected to a coal vein running near the surface, the burning trash caught the exposed vein of coal on fire and the rest as they say is history, my question again is could this heat source be tapped into as indeed they do in Iceland with some form of heat converter to produce electricity? it just seems such a waste of natural resources the world is so short of just to let them burn away, by the early 1980s the fire had affected approximately 200 acres and homes had to be abandoned as carbon monoxide levels reached life threatening levels, an engineering study concluded in 1983 that the fire could burn for another century or even more, so free steam till 2083 and all going to waste!