{"id":16557,"date":"2023-11-02T07:09:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T01:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16557"},"modified":"2025-04-04T20:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:45:59","slug":"white-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/white-hydrogen\/","title":{"rendered":"What is White Hydrogen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About White Hydrogen<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>White hydrogen is also referred to as \u201cnatural,\u201d \u201cgold\u201d or \u201cgeologic\u201d hydrogen.<\/li>\n<li>It is naturally produced\u00a0in the Earth\u2019s crust and is considered a potential clean energy.<\/li>\n<li>It generally exists combined with other molecules.<\/li>\n<li>White hydrogen has several advantages over other types of hydrogen\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0causes no CO2 emissions when used as a fuel.<\/li>\n<li>It is compatible with existing infrastructure and technologies for hydrogen production and utilization.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0cheaper and more efficient than steam reforming or electrolysis.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0abundant and renewable in nature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Its deposits have been found across the world, including in the\u00a0US, eastern Europe, Russia, Australia, France and other countries.<\/li>\n<li>It is estimated that globally there could be tens of billions of tons of white hydrogen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Types of Hydrogen<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Grey Hydrogen: It is produced\u00a0via coal or lignite gasification (black or brown), or via a process called steam methane reformation (SMR) of natural gas or methane (grey). These tend to be mostly carbon-intensive processes.<\/li>\n<li>Blue Hydrogen: It is produced via natural gas or coal gasification combined with carbon capture storage (CCS) or carbon capture use (CCU) technologies to reduce carbon emissions.<\/li>\n<li>Green Hydrogen: It is produced\u00a0using electrolysis of water with electricity generated by renewable energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Hydrogen?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the lightest and most abundant chemical element in the universe. It is the simplest element, consisting of just one proton and one electron. It is highly reactive and forms various compounds with other elements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/explainers\/scientists-have-discovered-white-hydrogen-beneath-france-how-it-can-help-save-the-earth-8642119.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists Have Discovered &#8216;White Hydrogen&#8217; Beneath France. How It Can Help Save the Earth | EXPLAINED<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Hydrogen is naturally produced in the Earth\u2019s crust and is considered a potential clean energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}