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Should be noted that natural hydrogen was also known since antiquity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825219304787 https://www.scienc
by _hypx 4y ago
Should be noted that natural hydrogen was also known since antiquity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825219304787 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00128...
The problem is that no one cared or knew what it was. This is not that dissimilar to petroleum itself, which was also ignored until the 19th century. Before then, it was seen as a curiosity and similarly ignored or misunderstood.
- dredmorbius 4y agoThanks. That adds another few known cases, but still nothing like the record for coal, oil, and gas prior to the industrial age.
- _hypx 4y agoPeople can say that in hindsight. But no one in the early to mid-1800s believed that oil seeps implied anything significant, or that oil was a plentiful substance. It was a geological curiosity at the time. Most people had no idea they even existed.