How much hydrogen awaits us underground?
- Source
- MIT Technology Review - All
- Source link
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/17/1141560/how-much-hydrogen-awaits-underground
- Published
- 2026-08-17 09:00:00
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-17 10:29:25
- Category
- Procurement Technology & AI
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America. There her team of geochemists found water that had been confined underground for more than a billion years. This ancient brine turned out to be a habitat…
Procurement Relevance Gate
FAIL
— score 7.0/100 — evaluated 2026-08-17 10:29:25
Only geographic exposure matched — no substantive content indicator, so this cannot pass alone.
- geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"
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