NETL Research Says Hydrogen Can Safely Be Stored Under Shale

Hydrogen is all the rage, at least in the D.C. swamp. Joe Biden and his sidekick Kamala Harris held a Hydrogen Hunger Games contest and in 2013 awarded seven proposed projects around the country with a total jackpot of $7 billion. Among the winners was the West Virginia-led Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2), which is a project that will use Marcellus/Utica natural gas as the feedstock to produce “blue” hydrogen, which is hydrogen made from natgas where carbon dioxide from the process is captured and either used or stored underground (see Hydrogen Hub Winners Announced – WV Takes Prize in M-U Region). There are a lot of questions about using hydrogen to produce energy and trying to replace natural gas with hydrogen. One of those questions, which has gone unanswered (until now), is whether you can store hydrogen underground like natural gas. The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has an answer.

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