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EXCITING / THE WORLD'S BIGGEST HYDROGEN gas deposit is discovered in ALBANIA! (STUDY)

2024-02-08 20:10:05Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
EXCITING / THE WORLD'S BIGGEST HYDROGEN gas deposit is discovered in
Mining in Bulqiza

The largest flow of natural hydrogen gas ever recorded has been measured deep in an Albanian mine.

The great discovery was made in a mine in Bulqiza.

"The bubble is really, really intense," says Laurent Truche at the University of Grenoble Alpes in France, who measured the gas in a pool of water nearly a kilometer underground. "It's like a jacuzzi," he said.

Companies are now searching for deposits of natural hydrogen around the world as a source of clean fuel, but evidence for large accumulations of this "golden hydrogen" is scarce.

Most claims of large subsurface hydrogen deposits rely on extrapolation, rather than direct measurements.

In search of more substantial evidence, Truche and his colleagues descended on the Bulqiza chrome mine in Albania, where hydrogen gas escaping from the rocks has caused several explosions.

The mine is also located within an exposure of iron-rich rock known as an ophiolite. Water is known to react with such rock to generate hydrogen in other places, such as Oman.

The researchers found that the gas bubbling out of the "pool" was more than 80 percent hydrogen, with methane and a small amount of nitrogen mixed in. It flowed at a rate of 11 tons per year, nearly an order of magnitude greater than any other flow of hydrogen gas measured from point sources elsewhere on Earth's surface.

To determine the source of the gas, the researchers also modeled various geological scenarios that could produce such a flow. They discovered that the most likely scenario was that the gas came from a deeper reservoir of hydrogen accumulated in a "belly" under the mine, reports voxnews.al. Based on the geometry of the fault, they estimate that this reservoir contains at least 5,000 to 50,000 tons of hydrogen.

"It's one of the largest volumes of natural hydrogen ever measured," says Eric Gaucher, an independent geochemist focused on natural hydrogen.

But it's still not a huge amount, says Geoffrey Ellis at the US Geological Survey. However, evidence of a steady accumulation of hydrogen supports the notion that much more is stored underground, he says. "We really need to look deeper," he declared.


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