Prospectors around the world are scrambling to find reserves of 'gold hydrogen', a naturally occurring fuel that burns without producing carbon dioxide. But how much is really out there and how easy is it to tap into?
AS WE drive out of Muscat, the white buildings of Oman’s capital give way to an expanse of open sand ahead of the foreboding Hajar mountains. It takes us 2 hours to reach our destination, a journey that includes our SUV nearly getting stuck in the narrow back alleys of a town. But, eventually, geophysicist Ammar Alali and I arrive at a peaceful spring in the desert, surrounded by golden grasses and date palms. Alali frowns disapprovingly at a stream of bubbles in a pool of water.
I have come here because Oman’s mountains are at the forefront of a global search for a new and potentially transformative fuel, sometimes called “gold hydrogen”. Colourless and odourless,has good environmental credentials because it burns cleanly, producing nothing but water. Usually, however, we have to make it in an emissions-intensive process.
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