He hydrogen could be the key to supplying energy to humanity for years to come and stop the increase in greenhouse gas emissionssomething that the scientific community has taken into account for some time with numerous advances in geology which are carried out around the world, such as the system developed by MIT to produce hydrogen using solar heat.
Recently, United States Geological Survey assured that there could be deposits of natural hydrogen reserves all over the planet demand supply for centuriesand there is hope of believing it with a new discovery.
Geologists believe that there could be natural underground deposits of hydrogen all over the planet
Recently was held in Denver meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and there, Geoffrey Ellis, of the United States Geological Survey, commented on a very interesting fact. According to his statement There are up to 5.5 billion tons of hydrogen in underground deposits from all over the planet.
In fact, this month of February, as reported by the portal Scienceand a group of geologists from Albania they found a chromite mine at Bulqiz which it seems to be produces more than 200 tons of hydrogen per year, making it one of the highest flows of this gas ever recorded.
“This large flow of hydrogen is likely due to long-term accumulation in the damaged reservoir.”I explain Brent Grocholski for the medium and optimistically stated: “Places with similar geology should be good targets for the search for other natural sources of hydrogen“.
Geoffrey Ellis himself was work in the studiowhich is still awaiting publication in which he develops incredible results about the progress that the scientific community in the field to look for so-called geological hydrogen or golden hydrogen in the aforementioned deposits. That is, hydrogen, which we naturally find on the planet without having to produce it artificially, something that would prevent the creation of harmful emissions and give us a clean and cheap energy capable of powering planes, trains or even cars in the future.
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Ellis believes that a percent extracting hydrogen from underground deposits could provide a demand of 500 million tons per year for hundreds of years.
And in certain underground deposits, hydrogen appears to form naturally through the interaction of certain iron-rich minerals with groundwater. Now, Ellis He didn’t want to give false hope. “It is likely that most of the hydrogen is Inaccessible“speak for him Financial Times. But he also added: “a small percentage of recovery will continue to supply all expected demand (500 million tons per year). hundreds of years“.
