There’s enough natural hydrogen trapped underground to meet all projected demands for hundreds of years. An unpublished report by the US Geological Survey identifies it as a new primary resource, and fires the starter pistol on a new gold rush.
There’s enough natural hydrogen trapped underground to meet all projected demands for hundreds of years. An unpublished report by the US Geological Survey identifies it as a new primary resource, and fires the starter pistol on a new gold rush.
We’re talking about H2 here, not CH4. And we’re talking mining, not producing.
I can produce H2 from H20 in my kitchen. Done it lots of times! Of course that nets less energy than it took to extract.
Mining is hardly free from an environmental standpoint. Of course nothing is, but reading the speculation about this it seems very unlikely that mining will even get started anytime soon. It’s very exploratory both in the where and the how. If you’re talking about the next few decades you are talking about traditional fossil fuel.