Insights from the clean molecule economy.

Europe's mountain ranges have spent millennia advertising themselves as scenery. New research suggests the Alps and Pyrenees may also be sitting on something far less picturesque and far more valuable: natural pockets of hydrogen gas formed deep within the rock itself, with no electrolyzer, no natural gas feedstock, and no carbon capture equipment required to make it clean. Most of the hydrogen economy's growing pains so far have come from how expensive and energy hungry it i

For decades, every significant natural hydrogen find on record has been an accident. French researchers tripped over the Lorraine deposit while scanning old coal seams for methane. A well in Mali that has been quietly powering a village since the 1990s dates back to a 1987 surprise that nobody was looking for. The entire field has been, until very recently, the geology equivalent of finding money in an old coat pocket. That changed in January 2026, when a small Canadian compa

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

Koloma, a clean energy technology company based in Denver and founded in 2021, is quietly transforming how the world thinks about...