World’s first drilling project to seek natural hydrogen hits a snag

In mid-March, staff started pumping water out of a 3.5-kilometre-deep gap drilled in the course of a Nebraska corn subject. It would have been an unremarkable scene if that they had been searching for oil or pure fuel. But the nicely is the primary on the planet drilled searching for naturally occurring hydrogen, which some assume may grow to be a major supply of fresh gas.

“We want to make a new discovery from scratch,” says Viacheslav Zgonnik at Natural Hydrogen Energy, the …