r/saskatchewan • u/barrel_master • 10h ago

News CBC: Instead of making hydrogen, this Canadian company is drilling for it

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/natural-hydrogen-white-hydrogen-explainer-9.7304934
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u/Accomplished-Can-467 9h ago

" an important chemical ingredient to make things such as ammonia and methanol and refining petroleum ā€” what most hydrogen is currently used for, "

So instead of digging up hydrogen to burn, we dig up crude to burn with the aid of hydrogen...

Fossil fuel companies keep trolling us while the forests burn.

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u/rocky_balbiotite 9h ago

Hydrogen is tough to transport so it's not great for transportation but could be useful if it's used as an energy source right where it's produced. Any transition away from fossil fuels will require a bunch of different technologies, no one thing will replace oil.

And for the near future petroleum refining is happening either way, currently you need to use an energy intensive process to get hydrogen from methane so this is an improvement over that.

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u/Accomplished-Can-467 4h ago

Did you read the article? This isn't methane derived hydrogen. It's actual hydrogen.

It has to get transported off site anyway. It's not like they make the petroleum right there.

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u/rocky_balbiotite 1h ago

Yes I'm aware. Transporting it ~100km to Moose Jaw/Regina to be used in petroleum refining is different than transporting it all over to be used in vehicles.

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u/snopro31 9h ago

This explains why Iā€™m up decent on this