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Snapshot of "Energy Department Awards $20 Million For Research Into Carbon-Free Geologic Hydrogen"

39 Alpha Research’s selection for the APRA-E Geologic Hydrogen project was mentioned in an article on forbes.com: Energy Department Awards $20 Million For Research Into Carbon-Free Geologic Hydrogen.

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Snapshot of "U.S. Department of Energy Announces $20 Million to 16 Projects Spearheading Exploration of Geologic Hydrogen"

39 Alpha Research is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a grant by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (APRA-E) program to explore the stimulated production of geologic hydrogen.

Geologic hydrogen is hydrogen gas ($\ce{H2}$) that is produced through reactions between water and rock in Earth’s subsurface. $\ce{H2}$ is a clean energy source that produces no carbon when burned or used in a fuel cell, and so represents a promising target for the United States’ decarbonization efforts.

39 Alpha’s Team 0 will leverage it’s expertise in high-throughput computation and geochemistry provide large-scale, high-resolution modeling support to other ARPA-E funded teams in an effort to maximize the production of $\ce{H2}$ through subsurface water-rock interactions.

Learn more about 39 Alpha’s work on Geologic $\ce{H2}$ production here, and stay tuned for more exciting news!

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39 Alpha Research has been awarded its first grant from NASA! This project will develop a data management system called Dorothy to make scientific data more transparent, and accessible, with the goal of making scientific results more reproducible and more inclusive. Dorothy funded by NASA’s Open Source Science Initiative.

For more information about our open source science projects follow us on github!

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Snapshot of "Huge Variation in Hydrogen Generation During Seawater Alteration of Ultramafic Rocks"

Team 0 member Dr. Tucker Ely is traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to represent 39 Alpha in discussions with APRA-E about our ideas for potential sources of sustainable, geochemical hydrogen generation as a clean fuel source. Dr. Ely’s recent paper on dihydrogen generation in seawater inspired this work, and we can’t wait to see where it takes us.

Check out our post for more details about our hydrogen generation ideas.

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39 Alpha’s Team 0 is currently working on the Carbonate State Space project, which requires large-scale thermodynamic modeling in geochemical systems. A key tool in this effort is the software package EQ3/6, by Thomas Wolery at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL)1. EQ3/6 has historically been publicly hosted by LLNL, but recently it’s disappeared! But don’t worry, you can find a public version with compilation instructions on our GitHub. Check it out! We made some small modifications from the original code, but those changes are documented.

39 Alpha will continue to keep these tools publicly available as part of our commitment to improve open science practices.

  1. Wolery, T. W. & Jarek, R. L. (2003). Software User’s Manual EQ36, Version 8.0. US, Technical report, US Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Office of Repository Development. ↩︎

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