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I was driving home from downtown at night. The expressway I take passes-by a very large obsolete landfill that has been covered over and no longer used. The landfill borders an industrial area that has sprung-up since the closure of the landfill. Recently, I?ve noticed a series of pipes, valves and pumps being erected in and around the landfill, presumably to vent-off methane gas that the old land-fill still generates through the decomposition of trash (deep underground). With the effort that was undertaken, I imagine that the purpose was to keep the methane (a green-house gas) from escaping into the atmosphere.

They built a tower next to the industrial area that is used to burn the methane, and on this night the flame was burning brightly. As I was driving by, it struck me how similar this scene is to the Hades landscape at the first of the film. I?ve heard the towers in the Hades landscape referred to as refinery towers, but wouldn?t it make more sense for these towers to be something similar to the tower used in the landfill? Most of the oil under the Los Angeles area has been extracted decades ago, so the refinery towers being in such abundance seems a bit of a stretch, however, it?s not hard to imagine that much of the Hades landscape could have been built on a land-fill, and climate changes evident in the film suggest that a future society might have to be much more careful concerning green house gases.

Another un-intentional prophesy by the film coming true?

take a pic and post it up

yes, the towers in the hades in BR were refinery towers, AKA "sour gas" stacks. its in the BR FAQ. you should get us a pic.

I think methane is also a product of the refining process itself. It would make sense that refineries burn off the excess through stacks.