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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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