Researchers just discovered a massive ‘jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure hydrogen’ a lucrative source of clean energy [Video]

Hydrogen is becoming a favorable alternative to fossil fuels because it doesn’t release carbon into the environment when burned. The downside is that generating it has long been an energy-intensive business that emits greenhouse gasses that warm the planet.

But recently, a team of researchers uncovered a massive reservoir of hydrogen buried in a mine in Albania that could serve as a source of clean, hydrogen energy.

The reservoir — located in the Bulqizë chromite mine just 25 miles east of Albania’s capital, Tirana — vents at least 200 tons of H2 gas per year, the researchers said in their report, published last month in the journal Science. They reported that that’s one of the largest recorded flow rates of H2  to date.

“What we have observed deep in the mine is another dimension,” Laurent Truche, the study’s lead author, toldLive Science. The reservoir “turns a draining pool inside a mine gallery into a breathtaking 30-square-meter [323 square feet] jacuzzi …