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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.