The next big thing in clean power is baffling scientists, writes davidfickling (via opinion)
A village in the arid savannah of west Africa seems an unlikely place to mark the birth of an energy revolution. If promoters of the next big thing in clean power are right, however, we may all remember the name of Bourakébougou in years to come.
That’s because the site 55 kilometers northwest of Mali’s capital Bamako was the first place on earth powered by natural hydrogen — pure gas seeping from the earth, like crude oil or methane. The phenomenon is so anomalous that, until recently, few geologists had given it much thought. In 2011, Montreal-based Hydroma Inc. unplugged a water well near Bourakébougou cemented up in 1987 after the air rising from it caused an explosion.
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