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Carbon free is not renewable, isn't it? Wasn't the plan for renewables?

• DennisP 4y ago
  Does it have to be? Climate change is getting pretty urgent. Maybe we should fix that first, and then worry about the ideal solution for the next ten thousand years. However, from the article: > natural hydrogen may be not only clean, but also renewable. It takes millions of years for buried and compressed organic deposits to turn into oil and gas. By contrast, natural hydrogen is always being made afresh, when underground water reacts with iron minerals at elevated temperatures and pressures. In the decade since boreholes began to tap hydrogen in Mali, flows have not diminished
  • hutzlibu 4y ago
    The title says "renewable", so yes, it has to be renewable, otherwise it is dishonest clickbait. Also from the article: "For Prinzhofer, the question of where natural hydrogen comes from is academic. “Maybe we are all completely wrong,” he says. “It doesn’t matter for the industry.” The oil industry sprang up long before it understood oil’s origins, he says. Similarly, what matters for the natural hydrogen industry is simply whether there is enough of the stuff to go after." And lastly: "No one anywhere in the world will produce hydrogen commercially anytime soon" Not really convincing and alltogether it all sounds code, to continue drilling for gas, with the vaint hope, that some of it might be hydrogen, warranting a green label.
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• noselasd 4y ago
  "These researchers say water-rock reactions deep within the Earth continuously generate hydrogen, " So it seems to be renewed - the next question that matters then is at what timescale and amount.