A 2025 study from the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, mapped out areas around the country with a lot of potential for buried hydrogen, with Michigan identified as a bright spot. That’s because the state sits on top of what’s called the Midcontinent Rift. It’s where the North American continent started splitting apart more than 1 billion years ago, then stopped.
“This represents, potentially, a pathway for which deep hydrogen can come up closer to the surface and be collected and extracted,” Schrenk said.
@supersquirrel first I’ve heard of this. How would you extract the hydrogen without releasing methane and without fracking? Is that even possible.
It’s probably easier to leave it in the ground and invest the money it would take into processes to create create hydrogen from water using just renewables and no other inputs.