Producing electricity from the Black Sea's toxic gas

The world's largest polluted sea can provide an endless amount of electricity to humans thanks to its toxic gas.

Part of the Black Sea looks from Russian territory.Photo: mapofukraine.net.

National Geographic said that the Black Sea, a sea inland in Eastern Europe, has almost no life in the past few decades because of pollution in rivers flowing into it. Only a few species of bacteria are likely to survive in the heavily polluted waters of the Black Sea.

The toxic waste streams from 17 European countries have reduced the amount of oxygen in the Black Sea water. This situation increases the concentration when hydrogen sulfide (H ₂ S) is in the sea water.

H ₂ S destroys life, but if humans can separate H gas from H ₂ S, it will become a new form of clean energy.

'We need clean energy while Europe has an environmental pollution problem to solve. Taking H from polluted sea can generate renewable energy sources and reduce seawater pollution ' , Mehmet Haklidir, a scientist from Tubitak Marmara Research Center in Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey, commented. .

Although research by Haklidir and his colleagues is only at an early stage, scientists still believe that humans can separate H from H ₂ S by many processes - such as heat, electrochemistry or photochemistry.

According to National Geographic, thermal H ₂ S decomposition is the most direct process. Scientists can put H ₂ S into the environment with temperatures between 800 and 1,500 degrees C to separate H.

Then they took H to the underground caves. The Black Sea region in Turkey has many underground caves.

Kizilelma, the second longest cave in Turkey, can become the ideal gas storage place if it has no holes or cracks that can cause gas to leak out.