/newsroom/taxonomy/term/6018/all en /newsroom/channels/news/expert-new-gold-rush-search-natural-hydrogen-canada-355665 <p>After helping to discover the world's first deposit of natural hydrogen in West Africa, which kick-started a search for the buried gas around the world, Denis Brière hopes his next breakthrough will be in Canada. Brière is a petrophysicist and vice-president of Calgary-based Chapman Hydrogen and Petroleum Engineering, which plans to begin testing and drilling in northern Ontario this summer in the hopes of finding enough hydrogen underground to produce and market the gas.</p> Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:17:54 +0000 keila.depape@mcgill.ca 308416 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/seawater-memory-keeper-energy-source-and-pollution-tracking-342845 <h6><img alt="Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia" src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/image/seawater-bottled.png" style="width:60%" /><br /> <i>Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia. Credit: Mike McDermid</i></h6> <h2>What can a bottle of seawater tell you about the fish living below?</h2> Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:58:01 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288427 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/could-metal-particles-be-clean-fuel-future-257172 <p><a href="/newsroom/files/newsroom/bergthorson1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/bergthorson1.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Can you imagine a future where your car is fueled by iron powder instead of gasoline?</p> <p>Metal powders, produced using clean primary energy sources, could provide a more viable long-term replacement for fossil fuels than other widely discussed alternatives, such as hydrogen, biofuels or batteries, according to a study in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal <em>Applied Energy</em>.</p> Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:44:35 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 25013 at /newsroom /newsroom/sasha-omanovic Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23770 at /newsroom