It's produced in the fertilizer industry it's produced in the chemical manufacturing industry.

So that's the balloon, big gas balloon.

So let me talk about hydrogen first.

And then we give it a second gene to grow an inorganic material that can be used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen that can be used for clean fuels.

What it is, is a picture of the spectrum of hydrogen.

And it can come from biofuels.

A lot of hydrogen's produced today in the world.

But it tells us that we know how to create it, we know how to create it cost effectively, we know how to handle it safely.

And a team has now just been able to mimic that hydrogen juggling hydrogenase.

So this, for example, is hydrogen generating algae.

It's filled with this toxic gas, hydrogen sulfide.

Here's the balloon being filled up with helium, and you can see it's a gorgeous sight.

So we're pretty excited about the future of hydrogen.

That hydrogen's being made because there's a good business reason for its use.

Vice Ministry of Hydrocarbons (Ministry of Mining and Hydrocarbons)

For instance, here they are laying down the balloon fabric behind, which is eventually going to be filled up with helium.

It's produced to get sulfur out of gasoline which I find is somewhat ironic.

It needs to be rocket powered or one of these things, a great big gas balloon.

About six months later I figured out it must be hydrogen, until some scientist told me the unfortunate truth, which is, you actually use more clean electrons than the ones you get inside a car, if you use hydrogen.

The vision here is to have each local community play to its natural strength in creating the hydrogen.

We think it's a question of not whether, but a question of when.

Those two trucks you see at the very end carry 12 tanks each of compressed helium.

And what they have to do is they have to assemble the entire balloon the fabric, parachute and everything on the ice and then fill it up with helium.

So, I made a hydrogen generator and I made an oxygen generator, and I had the two pipes leading into a beaker and I threw a match in.

Because there's no oxygen there, it's the largest reservoir of hydrogen sulfide on Earth. Shipwrecks are perfectly preserved.

And so we thought, like in a game of musical chairs, might we be able to give a person some hydrogen sulfide, and might it be able to occupy that place like in a game of musical chairs where oxygen might bind?

These are the same bonds that hold hydrocarbons together.

You have your two hydrogens, and then you would have a hydrogen here, and then you would have your bromine here.

As its hydrogen escaped, all that was left was a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide with a deathly greenhouse gas effect thus, the Venus we know today.

The beauty of hydrogen is it can come from so many different sources it can come from fossil fuels, it can come from any way that you can create electricity, including renewables.

So the balloon is being filled up with helium on the left hand side, and the fabric actually runs all the way to the middle where there's a piece of electronics and explosives being connected to a parachute, and then the parachute is then connected to the payload.

So if we would run the video But the real key question I'm sure that's on your mind where's the hydrogen going to come from?

There are people who are mimicking the energy harvesting device inside of purple bacterium, the people at ASU. Even more interesting, lately, in the last couple of weeks, people have seen that there's an enzyme called hydrogenase that's able to evolve hydrogen from proton and electrons, and is able to take hydrogen up basically what's happening in a fuel cell, in the anode of a fuel cell and in a reversible fuel cell.

The Hydrogen Solution

And if we start adding tranches of hydrogen in there, we are rapidly off imports and completely off oil in the 2040s.

And the most amazing thing that came out of that mission was a strong hydrogen signature at Shackleton crater on the south pole of the moon.

Now, it's way beyond present technology to even gather the hydrogen from intergalactic space and form it into other elements and so on.

It's between two isotopes of hydrogen, two kinds of hydrogen deuterium, which is heavy hydrogen, which you can get from seawater, and tritium which is super heavy hydrogen.

Now, the same mouse is given 80 parts per million hydrogen sulfide in this solid graph, and look what happens to its temperature.

We could separate the H out like this, and so since it's bonded to a hydrogen.

And the information is there twice one on each strand which is important, because when new cells are formed, these strands come apart, new strands are synthesized with the old ones as templates in an almost perfect process.

Oxygen and hydrogen make water.

Water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen.

Hydrogen is the lightest element.

The chemical symbol H stands for hydrogen.