Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) revealed that a team from the Geological Agency had discovered the potential for natural hydrogen gas in Morowali Regency, Central Sulawesi.
Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Dadan Kusdiana said that to follow up on these findings, the Geological Agency is currently conducting further research.
“We haven’t called it hydrogen because we’re still confirming it, it’s still at the Geological Agency for inspection and it’s been in the field, but it’s been a long time since it was said to have appeared, in fact it can be burned, later it will be hydrogen in another form,” said Dadan at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Building. , Friday (27/10/2023).
According to Dadan, hydrogen itself can actually be used in many applications. For example, fuel for the industrial sector and fuel for the transportation sector.
“If you look at it, there are two, industry and transportation. I haven’t seen it yet for households. The direction for industry is now to use hydrogen sources in the form of heat. If it uses electricity, there’s no need to make hydrogen in industry, just green electricity,” he said.
Previously, the Geological Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources reportedly found natural hydrogen at the One Pute Jaya hot springs location, in Morowali. The research currently being carried out is still in the initial research stage and hydrogen gas samples have been taken. So further research is still needed.
“The samples that we have taken will undergo further analysis in the laboratory to determine their original content. But what we have brought now has indeed detected the presence of natural hydrogen gas,” he said, quoted on Friday (27/10/2023).
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