Naturally occuring hydrogen

[Yugguy1970]

Just an interesting article.  I hadn't really thought about wether there would be stores of hydrogen like there are stores of a natural gas and oil.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67541581

[Cyker]

That is incredible news; I didn't think we had any of that left, as in the old days it was just released or burned as a waste material because it complicated mining for other things!

It's amazing it's still there after all this time, as hydrogen tends to easily leak through, well, everything over time, or at least react with it, which is why it's such a PITA to extract - It's usually stuck tightly to something else already! There must be some materials there that are slowly reacting and constantly producing it...!

[Bper]

This was interesting regarding green hydrogen price to the motorist.

how much would the motorist pay for hydrogen in 2030? Let’s take the absolute worst-case scenario:  if green hydrogen costs 22p/litre to make and retails at 60p/litre pre-tax, with the government taxing it as if it was petrol, the retail price would be equivalent to 136p/litre. However, the government would have a very hard time explaining why zero-emission green hydrogen should attract fuel duty when electricity for electric vehicles does not. After all, green hydrogen is effectively stored electricity – the fuel cell reacts the hydrogen with oxygen to produce electricity.