{"id":201755,"date":"2024-12-16T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T02:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/model-suggests-earths-subsurface-may-hold-up-to-5-6-x-10%e2%81%b6-million-metric-tons-of-natural-hydrogen"},"modified":"2024-12-16T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T02:28:17","slug":"model-suggests-earths-subsurface-may-hold-up-to-5-6-x-10%e2%81%b6-million-metric-tons-of-natural-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/model-suggests-earths-subsurface-may-hold-up-to-5-6-x-10%e2%81%b6-million-metric-tons-of-natural-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"Model suggests Earth\u2019s subsurface may hold up to 5.6 \u00d7 10\u2076 million metric tons of natural hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/model-suggests-earths-subsurface-may-hold-up-to-5-6-x-10e281b6-million-metric-tons-of-natural-hydrogen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pair of geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, has created a model that shows Earth\u2019s subsurface may hold up to 5.6 \u00d7 10<sup>6<\/sup> million metric tons of natural hydrogen. In their study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.ado0955\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, Geoffrey Ellis and Sarah Gelman added factors to a geological model to produce estimates regarding the likely amount of hydrogen in parts of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Prior research has shown that hydrogen can be produced artificially by applying electricity to water molecules to break them apart, leaving oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen is also produced naturally, via <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> between rocks when they come into contact with one another. But until relatively recently, it was thought that very little hydrogen was made this way.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/geologists\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">geologists<\/a> found huge natural reservoirs of hydrogen gas in Albania and West Africa, that thinking changed. Now, researchers believe that there are huge stores of hydrogen below our feet\u2014the question remains, however, how to find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, has created a model that shows Earth\u2019s subsurface may hold up to 5.6 \u00d7 106 million metric tons of natural hydrogen. In their study, published in the journal Science Advances, Geoffrey Ellis and Sarah Gelman added factors to a geological model to produce estimates regarding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201755","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}