@@sunjaysunjay6062 Everything we do has some risk and we always live forward and lean backwards (Kierkegaard). Let’s hope we learn our lessons quickly and do the right thing.
,... oil and gas are likely renewable through similar processes,... back in the late 80's there was a scientist that proposed this idea, the idea that plate tectonics, the geo-engin, produces a perpetual renewable source of petroleum,... it's exciting to think the same thing may be possible with Hydrogen.
Abioto oil. Polymerisation by pressure heat water and carbonaceous rock and tada oil gas. No such thing as "emissions". Ligth bulbs emitt. Words used to deceive is called a lie.
What is the initial expected value for extraction / (generation-losses) of Natural Hydrogen and how does it compare with corresponding value for Natural Gas extracted by conventional deep drilling?
Hi, when you say natural occuring concentration of hydrogen 7%, the other gas is methane or something like that?. How do you separate the hydrogen? How efficient is that process, can you get away without releasing the methane?
Good questions. The lifecycle analysis will tell whether the natural hydrogen will indeed be clean enough or if it will end up causing more emissions that we save by mining it. No large-scale production has happened so we have to wait and see.
Depends on the wells. The one in Africa is 98% pure, another well in Australia is around 92% pure with the other 8 being helium. Then there's another in Albania recently discovered that's around 92% pure and has been bubbling out from water like a jacuzzi in a mine since antiquity. I think we'll be able to find good wells that have high purity so you don't need a lot of work to separate non h2 and avoid methane leakage.
@@ryoukokonpaku1575 Just as in the case of crude oil and coal mines, energy density varies and it matters a lot. But it is hard to predict so we will be digging up a lot of place looking for white hydrogen. We need to be careful.
Hydrogen is very difficult to store - just look at the problems for the space industry when using hydrogen as a rocket fuel. Also, the engineering studies done for building the infrastructure for a hydrogen-based vehicle fuel has demonstrated the extremely demanding requirements for transporting and storing hydrogen. Of course, this is relevant to any sort of hydrogen reserves to be found underground - oil and natural gas have nothing in common with hydrogen as regards the build-up of isolated and concentrated permeable rock formations impregnated with these fossil fuels. It is much easier to have an impermeable layer over an oil/gas -bearing geological formation that prevents their continuing migration upwards than to contain hydrogen. Hydrogen, being such a small and light element, will escape containment by steadily moving into and through any barriers - barriers that will easily trap larger and heavier molecules of other hydrocarbons.
Totally agree but if it is found in large enough quantities then economic incentives will drive some innovations to address each and every of these issues, I hope. We will have to wait and see and hope that the ingenious human mind will come up with safe and effective solutions.
Natural Hydrogen exploration great task
@@sunjaysunjay6062 Everything we do has some risk and we always live forward and lean backwards (Kierkegaard). Let’s hope we learn our lessons quickly and do the right thing.
6:03 Is there a single site in the world with high enough production to actually run a large power plant?
Not yet but explorations have just started. Likely that the US will find something or may be African countries. Wait and watch.
,... oil and gas are likely renewable through similar processes,... back in the late 80's there was a scientist that proposed this idea, the idea that plate tectonics, the geo-engin, produces a perpetual renewable source of petroleum,... it's exciting to think the same thing may be possible with Hydrogen.
Everything is recycled and reproduced but at geologic timescales. We are burning them at a much faster rate. Emissions are the main issue. Thanks.
Abioto oil.
Polymerisation by pressure heat water and carbonaceous rock and tada oil gas.
No such thing as "emissions".
Ligth bulbs emitt.
Words used to deceive is called a lie.
Interesting topic not only because I like science but fascinating twist on possible clean energy solutions.
Indeed!
I was just reading about a local project, QMIC a Canadian Corporation doing this.
@@bruceposch1449 Yes, there are many projects and white H2 may become the new oil drilling.
What is the initial expected value for extraction / (generation-losses) of Natural Hydrogen and how does it compare with corresponding value for Natural Gas extracted by conventional deep drilling?
Check out the discovery in eastern France . It is gigantic!
@@mrmprm8732 Life Cycle Analysis would be nice but subsidies may hide reality. Markets may decide in the end.
@@fayebird1808 Everybody is looking for white H2 now. It’s the new oil exploration.
Hi, when you say natural occuring concentration of hydrogen 7%, the other gas is methane or something like that?. How do you separate the hydrogen? How efficient is that process, can you get away without releasing the methane?
Good questions. The lifecycle analysis will tell whether the natural hydrogen will indeed be clean enough or if it will end up causing more emissions that we save by mining it. No large-scale production has happened so we have to wait and see.
Depends on the wells. The one in Africa is 98% pure, another well in Australia is around 92% pure with the other 8 being helium. Then there's another in Albania recently discovered that's around 92% pure and has been bubbling out from water like a jacuzzi in a mine since antiquity. I think we'll be able to find good wells that have high purity so you don't need a lot of work to separate non h2 and avoid methane leakage.
@@ryoukokonpaku1575 Just as in the case of crude oil and coal mines, energy density varies and it matters a lot. But it is hard to predict so we will be digging up a lot of place looking for white hydrogen. We need to be careful.
Hydrogen is very difficult to store - just look at the problems for the space industry when using hydrogen as a rocket fuel. Also, the engineering studies done for building the infrastructure for a hydrogen-based vehicle fuel has demonstrated the extremely demanding requirements for transporting and storing hydrogen.
Of course, this is relevant to any sort of hydrogen reserves to be found underground - oil and natural gas have nothing in common with hydrogen as regards the build-up of isolated and concentrated permeable rock formations impregnated with these fossil fuels. It is much easier to have an impermeable layer over an oil/gas -bearing geological formation that prevents their continuing migration upwards than to contain hydrogen.
Hydrogen, being such a small and light element, will escape containment by steadily moving into and through any barriers - barriers that will easily trap larger and heavier molecules of other hydrocarbons.
Totally agree but if it is found in large enough quantities then economic incentives will drive some innovations to address each and every of these issues, I hope. We will have to wait and see and hope that the ingenious human mind will come up with safe and effective solutions.