{"id":186065,"date":"2024-03-26T22:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T03:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/primordial-fuel-uncovering-hydrogens-role-at-the-origin-of-life"},"modified":"2024-03-26T22:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T03:25:59","slug":"primordial-fuel-uncovering-hydrogens-role-at-the-origin-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/primordial-fuel-uncovering-hydrogens-role-at-the-origin-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Primordial Fuel: Uncovering Hydrogen\u2019s Role at the Origin of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/primordial-fuel-uncovering-hydrogens-role-at-the-origin-of-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study reveals how hydrogen gas, often touted as the energy source of tomorrow, provided energy in the past, at the origin of life 4 billion years ago. Hydrogen gas is clean fuel. It burns with oxygen in the air to provide energy with no CO<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is a key to sustainable energy for the future. Though humans are just now coming to realize the benefits of hydrogen gas (H<sub>2<\/sub> in chemical shorthand), microbes have known that H<sub>2<\/sub> is a good fuel for as long as there has been life on Earth. Hydrogen is ancient energy.<\/p>\n<p>The very first cells on Earth lived from H<sub>2<\/sub> produced in hydrothermal vents, using the reaction of H<sub>2<\/sub> with CO<sub>2<\/sub> to make the molecules of life. Microbes that thrive from the reaction of H<sub>2<\/sub> and CO<sub>2<\/sub> can live in total darkness, inhabiting spooky, primordial habitats like deep-sea hydrothermal vents or hot rock formations deep within the Earth\u2019s crust, environments where many scientists think that life itself arose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study reveals how hydrogen gas, often touted as the energy source of tomorrow, provided energy in the past, at the origin of life 4 billion years ago. Hydrogen gas is clean fuel. It burns with oxygen in the air to provide energy with no CO2. Hydrogen is a key to sustainable energy for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}