For more than a decade, a working mine near Timmins, Ontario has been quietly exhaling hydrogen from boreholes drilled into billion-year-old rock. Nobody measured it. Nobody published the numbers. That changed on May 18, 2026, when a research team led by geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the University of Toronto and Oliver Warr of the University of Ottawa published findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the hydrogen economy can no longer aff