Ohio State lab seeks to help unlock hydrogen gas as clean fuel for the future with Koloma
A company seeking to develop natural hydrogen exploration techniques has opened a new laboratory on the Ohio State University campus, aiming to enable large-scale production of a gas that can be used as a clean energy source.
Koloma, which is housed in Ohio State’s Energy Advancement and Innovation Center, held its grand opening Sept. 25 for the state-of-the-art laboratories that will help the company identify and work toward extracting underground hydrogen gas repositories, which could be used as a power source and in chemical and industrial applications.
Tom Darrah, Koloma’s chief technology officer, said that hydrogen as a resource has been overlooked for decades, and the company’s goal is to “explore for and commercialize” the gas and offer a clean fuel source for the future.
Darrah said,
The Earth did the work of making this resource for us, so us being successful at bringing that to market provides the greatest energy density to the lowest carbon footprint,
“And if we’re successful — the best economics you’re going to find for hydrogen.”
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Ohio State lab seeks to help unlock hydrogen gas as clean fuel for the future with Koloma, source
