NASA Reports Vast Hydrogen Reserves in Earth's Crust

Garin writes: "The Vancouver Sun is reporting that NASA scientists have discovered vast quantities of hydrogen stored in the Earth's crust while they were trying to explain the presence of living bacteria. Could this be the beginning of the end for our dependence on oil? I hope so."

Oxygen crisis in 3000

[coyote-san]

Sure, it sounds like a neat idea now.

But wait until we've been burning hydrogen-powered cars for a thousand years, locking up all of the atmospheric oxygen in water. People will be gasping for air at sea level, and the 'dead zone' on mountains (which the oxygen level is too low to support human life) will include cities like Denver and Mexico City.

1000 Litres....in Your Dreams

[dbretton]

Professor Freund said that his team had "tantalizing evidence" that as much as 1,000 litres of hydrogen may be trapped in each cubic metre of rock.


When asked what this could possibly mean, Dr. Freud said that it meant that he secretly wishes to engage in sexual relations with his mother.

beware!

[DickPhallus]

NASA scientists have discovered vast quantities of hydrogen

Any extraction of this 'hydrogen' should be persued with caution. Especially if this so called 'hydrogen' is in the dangerous dihydrogen monoxide form!

Consider some of it's effects and the consider the whole cover-up and conspiracy [dhmo.org] surround dihydrogen monoxide!

Please, for the children's sake, reconsider!

Re:Hydrogen mining!

[CaseStudy]

Yeah, and they can market it under the trade name "Vespene."

Instead of rocks, use traps.

[Mr.Intel]

My favorite quote from the article:'The most promising source of the hydrogen may be geological "traps" similar to those now drilled for natural gas. Professor Freund said: "One of these natural hydrogen fields is already known to exist in North America, and extends from Canada to Kansas."'

So instead of crushing rocks to extract the Hydrogen, we can just pump it up like we do with oil. As an aside, we can pump in CO2 which is much heavier than H2 and solve the worlds CO2 [slashdot.org] problems as well!

Yeah! No more oil dependency!

[qurob]

We'll just convert the 200 million cars in the country to hydrogen by Friday

It's like being in a Microsoft-free world, it's possible, it will just take time.

Right.

[cswiii]

Could this be the beginning of the end for our dependence on oil?

I can think [exxonmobil.com] of many [bpamoco.com] reasons [chevrontexaco.com] why it won't [congress.gov].

News Flash

[indole]

Scientist report vast quanitities of hydrogen in Earths oceans.

Re:Dependence on WHAT?

[Ioldanach]

I'm still waiting for a "Mr. Fusion" for my car so I can go 1000 miles on two banana peels and a quarter cup of coffee grounds.

And never be late again, either, with the flux capacitor under the hood.

Re:Dependence on WHAT?

[dorix]

Are you sure? Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. If we've found a large, easily tapped reserve, this is a good thing, I think.

There's one about 93 million miles away from us. Let's send some miner probes out to that one!

Re:Even Larger Amounts

[Anonymous Coward]

first post redundant.

outstanding job, moderators!

Re:Could it be?

[sulli]

But if the nation's Soccer Moms have to give up their Grand Caravans, and the nation's Midlife Crisis Divorced Men have to give up their Range Rovers, then truly, truly I say to you, the terrorists will have won.

Larger amounts of hydrogen discovered in sea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Vast amounts of hydrogen has been found in the oceans.
After a 5 year study, scientists have concluded that the ocean contains as much as two atoms of hydrogen for every one atom of oxygen.
Enough to solve all the planets energy needs!

Re:How bout ethanol?

[mikeee]

In the states there are thousands of farmers who cannot afford to eat.

Huh? Support for this, please? (Farmers having trouble making their loan payments or going bankrupt I might believe...)

I mean, if they really couldn't eat, they could, I dunno, consume some edible plants. If only there were some way farmers might have access to those...

NASA Reports Vast Hydrogen Rsrvs in Earth's Crust

[estes_grover]

LONDON -- Scientists have discovered vast quantities of hydrogen gas, widely regarded as the most promising alternative to today's dwindling stocks of fossil fuels, lying beneath the Earth's crust.

Scientist 1: Wow! It's kinda dark down here.

Scientist 2: Just a sec...let me light this match for...