Found the treasure map to find one source Of clean energy of the future: thenatural hydrogen. Finding hydrogen deposits is still a lot to date difficult But the work coordinated by Chris Ballentine, of the University of Oxford, and published in the magazine Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, managed to define where and how It is possible extract hydrogen present in subsoil.
Hydrogen is considered One of the best sources of clean energy for the future and is also used in large quantities to produce fertilizers But there are still many challenges related in particular to its availability, so much so that to date most of hydrogen actually comes produced by extracting it from other materialsthus producing 2.4% of global CO2 emissions.
The request of hydrogen, 90 million tons in 2022, can increase until 540 million tons In the 2050 and for this thefuture goal It is the possibility of directly extracting hydrogen from the subsoil.
It is estimated that the so -called natural hydrogen produced by internal reactions to the planet exist inside the earth’s crust, which could be used as a natural source for the future but there are many obstacles to overcome because there are many factors that can lead to the dispersion of hydrogen, such as the soil characteristicsor to the attack by bacteria who feed on it using it as a source of energy.
To extract natural hydrogen, therefore a real guide is needed because “combining the ingredients to find the hydrogen accumulated in any of these contexts can be compared to the preparation of a soufflé: just make a mistake any of the ingredients, quantities, times or temperature and will remain disappointed,” said a ballentine. Precisely with this goal, the researchers have now published a sort of instruction manual To create useful maps to identify deposits of this precious and resource and kicked off a starup dedicated to the search for natural hydrogen.
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