Hal Bernton of Inside Climate News reports on Alaska’s potential for underground hydrogen.
Alaska geologist Mark Myers hopes that underground reserves of hydrogen could fuel a new state energy industry.
His dreams were launched by a well drilled in the African country of Mali that yields enough hydrogen to fuel a village electric power plant.
Myers is hopeful that hydrogen deposits also exist in Alaska in a metamorphic rock called serpentinite, which is often found in subduction zones where one plate of the Earth’s crust is pushed underneath another.
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