There’s enough natural hydrogen trapped underground to meet all projected demands for hundreds of years. An unpublished report by the US Geological Survey identifies it as a new primary resource, and fires the starter pistol on a new gold rush.

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    9 months ago

    Mining is hardly free from an environmental standpoint. Of course nothing is, but reading the speculation about this it seems very unlikely that mining will even get started anytime soon. It’s very exploratory both in the where and the how. If you’re talking about the next few decades you are talking about traditional fossil fuel.