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Pure hydrogen is not found in meaningful quantities on earth. There’s a huge demand for hydrogen in industry and it’s almost exclusively met with steam methane
by Retric 2y ago
Pure hydrogen is not found in meaningful quantities on earth.
There’s a huge demand for hydrogen in industry and it’s almost exclusively met with steam methane reforming there’s some methane pyrolysis and a little green hydrogen but not much. If people could just drill for it, they would happier do so as being so light it’s easy to separate out from other gasses.
- pfdietz 2y ago> Pure hydrogen is not found in meaningful quantities on earth. This is not necessarily true. A recent discovery in France could contain as much as 250 million metric tons of hydrogen (but that's a generous upper bound).
- Retric 2y agoSure there’s useful amounts of grey hydrogen but not enough for any kind of energy transition. We’re talking about the useful energy from ~1 number power plant over its lifespan. So find ~1,000 such locations and that would be a big deal.
- pfdietz 2y agoThis is white hydrogen, not grey hydrogen. It's not clear what would be available globally if it were looked for as it was in France.
- Retric 2y agoAhh ops flipped though there’s a really long list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production