HIDDEN HYDROGEN
Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?
… historically, when well loggers cataloged their borehole emanations, they rarely bothered to measure for hydrogen. “The bottom line---they weren’t really looking for hydrogen,” says Geoffrey Ellis, an organic geochemist at USGS. “We weren’t looking in the right places with the right tools.”
THE MAIN ENGINE of natural hydrogen production is now thought to be a set of high-temperature reactions between water and iron-rich minerals such as olivine, which dominate Earth’s mantle. One common reaction is called serpentinization, because it converts olivine into another kind of mineral called serpentinite. In the process, the iron oxidizes, grabbing oxygen atoms from water molecules and releasing hydrogen.
He thinks Earth produces orders of magnitude more hydrogen each year than the 90 million tons that humans manufacture. But it’s not only that flow that matters---it’s the size of the underground stock. “How much can be trapped in the subsurface that we can actually go after?” Ellis asks. “That’s a much more difficult question to answer.”
He and his USGS colleague Sarah Gelman gave it a try using a simple “box” model borrowed from the oil industry. The model accounted for impermeable rock traps of different kinds, the destructive effect of microbes, and the assumption---based on oil industry experience—that only 10% of hydrogen accumulations might ever be tapped economically. Ellis says the model comes up with a range of numbers centered around a trillion tons of hydrogen. That would satisfy world demand for thousands of years even if the green-energy transition triggers a surge in hydrogen use.
The contribution of the Precambrian continental lithosphere to global H2 production
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14017
Hydrogen emissions from hydrothermal fields in Iceland and comparison with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
More recently the H2 content within the Larderello geothermal zone of Italy has been studied and the authors concluded that the H2 observed in the steam is due to the serpentinization of the ophiolitic nappes involved in the Apennines thrusts. Native hydrogen has also been discovered in the western Pyrenean foothills and is attributed to mantle rocks serpentinization, in Mount Chimaera (Spain), Tablelands (Canada) and Happo (Japan), but also in Prony Bay (New Caledonia, in the Voltry massif hyperalkaline springs (France) and in Oman.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360319922001938
Good to see some smart pedes in this thread.
As has been mentioned, a surprising amount of hydrogen can be generated daily from water using some solar panels and filtered tap water. We don't need hydrogen reserves from the ground. The simplicity in generating H2 for the average person is why the cabal never allows any serious implementations of hydrogen power for the citizenry.
25 years ago, a company in Florida had a hydrogen power cell that was ready to go to market. 4 years were spent in testing and refinement to make it safe for consumers. It was the size of a mini-fridge and could power an average home for a year without refueling. It could be "trickle charged" via a few solar panels and electrolysis.
A few weeks before going to market, they were "bought" and shut down. Employees went to work one morning and the doors were locked with a sign on the door telling them they were out of a job.
This is one example of many like it. It's just the example I was involved with.
Hydrogen power cells = energy independence for your average person. "They" cannot tolerate that.
The sad thing is that hydrogen power cells are primitive compared to what the black world has. But it would be an enormous step up from what we have now.