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The Quest to Uncover the Secrets of Gold Hydrogen
Industries want to harvest naturally occurring hydrogen as soon as possible, but scientists warn of unforeseen consequences.
“If you burn it, it produces only water, with no impact on the environment,” explains Alberto Vitale Brovarone, a professor in the Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Bologna in Italy. Vitale Brovarone and his colleagues believed Greenland could help answer these questions, and so they organized a special mission to the Arctic territory to hunt for more information, as part of the five-year ERC CoG DeepSeep program funded by the European Union. Across the world, gold hydrogen is popping up where we don’t expect it, creating questions about the dynamics by which the element accumulates in reservoirs and the role it plays in subsurface ecosystems.
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