A new study reveals that the ways in which we manufacture hydrogen in the United States may actually be doing more damage to the environment than good.
The mining of natural gas creates significant quantities of carbon dioxide. The study also found that during the natural gas mining process as much as 3.5% of the gas leaks into the atmosphere, a consequential portion of which is methane. Methane can be, by some estimates, 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in regards to the greenhouse effect.
While many energy companies are promoting hydrogen as an alternative fuel due to investments in natural gas mines, it would be far more friendly to Mother Earth if hydrogen was manufactured using solar or other forms of renewable energy. This type of hydrogen is called green hydrogen.
Read the article at Autoblog.