Recent discoveries indicate that hydrogen reserves are buried in various locations around the globe, including at least 30 U.S. states. According to a research team’s publication in the journal “Nature Reviews Earth and Environment,” if humanity can find a way to access this hydrogen, it could meet its energy needs for the next 170,000 years.
Currently, geologists have only a partial understanding of how large hydrogen accumulations form and where to locate them. “What’s needed is to identify where it has been released, accumulated, and preserved,” stated Chris Valentine, a geochemistry professor at the University of Oxford and leader of the research team, in an interview with Live Science.
The new study claims that enough hydrogen has been produced in the Earth’s crust over the past billion years to meet our current energy needs for 170,000 years. However, it remains unclear how much of this hydrogen can be effectively accessed and extracted.
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