[Retric]

Pure hydrogen is not found in meaningful quantities on earth.

There’s a huge demand for hydrogen in industry and it’s almost exclusively met with steam methane reforming there’s some methane pyrolysis and a little green hydrogen but not much. If people could just drill for it, they would happier do so as being so light it’s easy to separate out from other gasses.

[pfdietz]

> Pure hydrogen is not found in meaningful quantities on earth.

This is not necessarily true. A recent discovery in France could contain as much as 250 million metric tons of hydrogen (but that's a generous upper bound).

[Retric]

Sure there’s useful amounts of grey hydrogen but not enough for any kind of energy transition.

We’re talking about the useful energy from ~1 number power plant over its lifespan. So find ~1,000 such locations and that would be a big deal.

[pfdietz]

This is white hydrogen, not grey hydrogen.

It's not clear what would be available globally if it were looked for as it was in France.

[Retric]

Ahh ops flipped though there’s a really long list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production