Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The race is on to find deposits of white hydrogen, a versatile fuel that burns without creating emissions. It naturally forms underground from where it could be extracted, just like oil and gas – and then replace them. We followed a white hydrogen pioneer deep into the woods to hunt for this energy treasure.
#PlanetA #Hydrogen #WhiteHydrogen
Credits:
Reporter: Jonas Mayer
Camera: Florian Kroker
Video Editor: David Jacobi
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Adam Baheej Adada, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Aditional Animations: Adam Baheej Adada
Factcheck: Jeannette Cwienk
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:38 On the hunt for hydrogen
02:26 Why (white) hydrogen?
04:08 Where does it come from?
06:00 The business case
07:16 A global rush
08:44 Scaling up
11:27 What now?
Read more:
Policy briefing on natural hydrogen:
royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/natural-hydrogen/natural-hydrogen-policy-briefing.pdf
IEA's Global Hydrogen Review 2025:
iea.org/reports/global-hydrogen-review-2025
The Mali case:
nature.com/articles/s41598-023-38977-y
More on the approach of stimulated hydrogen: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/cs/d3cs00723e
Europe's hydrogen bet:
youtube.com/watch?v=fiJy65WwsMM
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The race is on to find deposits of white hydrogen, a versatile fuel that burns without creating emissions. It naturally forms underground from where it could be extracted, just like oil and gas – and then replace them. We followed a white hydrogen pioneer deep into the woods to hunt for this energy treasure.
#PlanetA #Hydrogen #WhiteHydrogen
Credits:
Reporter: Jonas Mayer
Camera: Florian Kroker
Video Editor: David Jacobi
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Adam Baheej Adada, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Aditional Animations: Adam Baheej Adada
Factcheck: Jeannette Cwienk
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:38 On the hunt for hydrogen
02:26 Why (white) hydrogen?
04:08 Where does it come from?
06:00 The business case
07:16 A global rush
08:44 Scaling up
11:27 What now?
Read more:
Policy briefing on natural hydrogen:
royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/natural-hydrogen/natural-hydrogen-policy-briefing.pdf
IEA's Global Hydrogen Review 2025:
iea.org/reports/global-hydrogen-review-2025
The Mali case:
nature.com/articles/s41598-023-38977-y
More on the approach of stimulated hydrogen: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/cs/d3cs00723e
Europe's hydrogen bet:
youtube.com/watch?v=fiJy65WwsMM
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
Follow Planet A on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dw_planeta?la...
