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ttultoday at 4:24 AM1 replyview on HN

I think there is literally no oxygen down there with the hydrogen. It’s the same with hydraulic fracturing of hydrocarbons. Plenty of methane COULD go boom, but there is no oxygen deep underground.


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ttultoday at 4:25 AM

(Otherwise it would have slowly transformed into CO2 over the eons without our help)