Us planet It offers us truly fascinating materials that allow us to move around, obtain energy and have a good standard of living. This has led several researchers to start searching fossil fuels (all of which we explain here) and other options so that human well-being does not change. What a group of experts have discovered, however, is from a movie.
The ambition of some specialists has ensured that they received the surprise of their lives. They don’t expect to see something like that and it will undoubtedly appear in the history books.
This is a new study that is going around the world and will serve as a reference point for other explorers and researchers who want to do the same.
A huge supply of hydrogen gas has been unearthed under a chrome mine Albania, which offers a potential alternative to clean energy. This is news because we are in a context where companies and states around the world are trying to improve their sustainability by reducing the ecological footprint they leave in their environment.
They were looking for fossil fuels, but what they found is news around the planet
The estimate of the deposit found beneath the mine Bulqize is that it houses up to 55,000 tons of hydrogen, which could maintain a high flow rate for more than two centuries. Laurent Trucheprofessor of geochemistry at University of Grenoble Alpes in Francewas in charge of the investigation.
He explained that the hydrogen deposit lies in part of the Earth’s crust and mantle Tierra that once lay beneath the ocean. That section is now in Albania and was pushed into the earth millions of years ago, forming the ophiolite, a rock belt.
The research team came across this surprise while exploring the mine in the northwest of the country Tirana. They noticed that significant amounts of hydrogen gas were escaping from the rocks and bubbling through pools of water in the mine, indicating the presence of a significant H deposit.
The journal Science published the study, highlighting the potential that reservoirs have as a source of carbon-free fuel. However, there is still a long way to go before this option can be feasible, as extracting hydrogen from deep underground poses several challenges, such as the lack of infrastructure and difficult extraction.
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“We have seen many hyperalkaline sources around the world in ophiolites where hydrogen is bubbling,” he noted. Truche. And he added: “But what we observed in the depths of the mine is another dimension.” Despite the promising statements, there are significant safety concerns due to the flammable nature of hydrogen. The study warns that high hydrogen concentrations at the mine have caused several explosions in recent years, requiring better safety measures.
What is hydrogen?
Hydrogen is the first element we find in the periodic table. It is also the lightest chemical element, because its atom consists of a proton and an electron and is stable in the form of a diatomic molecule. The Tierra It contains a lot of H, which makes up about 75% of the planet’s matter, but it is mixed with other elements such as oxygen, creating water molecules or carbon, creating organic compounds.
“Therefore it is not a fuel that can be obtained directly from nature, but rather an energy vector (like electricity) and therefore it must be ‘manufactured’,” states the National Hydrogen Center.
Although several alternatives are found for the fossil fuels on the planet there is still no date for its final cessation. What somehow happened Albania shake the planet.