The discovery of a large cache of hydrogen deep in an Albanian mine has researchers searching for more of the gas trapped in the earth.
The circles in this brilliant LiDAR image of the North Carolina coast are caused by hydrogen gas seeping from underground. Researchers are looking for large deposits of hydrogen that can be harvested to generate electricity without climate-changing emissions.Geological fieldwork occasionally happens in dangerous places, from the slopes of erupting volcanoes to the depths of frigid Antarctic chasms. Even so, they tend not to take place inside exploding mines.
Humanity has known that hydrogen has been seeping out of the planet for ages. “We’ve known about hydrogen seeps for thousands of years,” says Edlmann—small gassy pockets topped with endless flames can be found across the globe. But it was always thought that the subsurface contained tiny amounts of the stuff.
Today, in some settings, hydrogen is used as a minor energy or electricity source—but it must be manufactured. There areto do this, from using solar power to electrically sever hydrogen from water molecules, to using steam to extract hydrogen from methane gas. Albania’s Bulqizë mine was a prime target for prospectors for two main reasons. Firstly, it cuts into an ancient seafloor dating back to the time of the dinosaurs—one that is riddled with both fluids and iron-rich volcanic rocks, making it a promising hydrogen factory.
What truly matters here is that the gas was able to be trapped: it had an effective rocky seal, and it wasn’t eaten up by hydrogen-hungry microbes nor did it get broken down by
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