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The USGS just released the first continent-wide map of hidden hydrogen trapped under American soil — pointing drillers at a fuel that quietly makes itself underground

Somewhere beneath the iron-rich bedrock of Minnesota, Kansas, and the southern Appalachians, water is reacting with ancient minerals and splitting off hydrogen gas. That process has been running for ...
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The USGS just released the first continent-wide map of geologic hydrogen hiding under American soil — pointing drillers toward a fuel that quietly makes itself underground

Somewhere beneath Kansas, a well drilled in the 1980s for natural gas kept returning an unexpected reading: hydrogen, in concentrations high enough to notice but not high enough for anyone to care ...