Olivine minerals like forsterite can produce hydrogen when interacting with groundwater
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History/USGS
Efforts to extract underground hydrogen for use as a clean fuel have received a huge boost from the US Department of Energy (DoE), which earlier this month announced $20 million in funding to explore the concept. What is behind the rapid rise in interest in this “geologic hydrogen”, which was on the fringes of science less than a year ago?
“We’re on an exponential curve,” says Geoffrey Ellis at the US Geological Survey, whose research has played …
