Our Concepts and Vision
Old Dream, New Reality
Enthusiast Hydrogen™ Corporation was founded by inventor Brian Peck of Kansas City Missouri in 2023. He had investigated hydrogen since the early 2000’s for use in one of his inventions. He needed large amounts of hydrogen in a continuous feed - something that was not available. What small amounts of hydrogen were available could not be stored effectively and was extremely expensive. He shelved his project for about two decades but continued research and development on his ideas. Several technological, environmental, governmental, and societal movements came together just right in 2025 to push him forward with his hydrogen dreams.
Why Gold Hydrogen™?
Natural hydrogen (Gold Hydrogen™) is a relatively new concept. For most of humanity’s chemistry teachings, naturally occurring hydrogen wasn’t supposed to be found on earth. It was thought that it was too reactive, has an affinity to combine with other atoms to form molecules, and if it was created, would rise into the atmosphere and be lost.
Small research teams have found natural hydrogen vents in around the world for about a decade, and the first flowing well in 1987 in Mali. It was determined that serpentinization (geologic hydrogen) was occurring below an old chromium mine. In essence, hot rocks and water combine chemically underground and release hydrogen and oxygen into the surrounding area.
Other areas that we have studied have a different process due to radioactivity in certain minerals (radiologic hydrogen). The radioactivty is the method of action wherin water is decomposed to hydrogen and oxygen and released into the surrounding area. A further process involves microbial digestion of carbon based materials within certain geologic makeups.
In 2025, the US government released a multi-year geologic study that confirmed these serpentinization processes are occurring in very large amounts between 5 and 15 miles underground. It was determined that hydrogen may be stored in the geologic layers in certain areas of the planet creating a valuable resource. It is estimated that just 2% of these gases could power humanity for more than 300 years.
Our own research and data on radiologic hydrogen deposits and gas sample publications in May have confirmed that high purity hydrogen is available from these processes in our target areas. Now we have to recover it. We believe that natural sources, if extracted in large quantities, could be world changing.
Locate It
The first step to accessing Gold Hydrogen™ is locating it. Most meaningful accumulations are speculated to be in the Midwestern United States. We are focusing on areas in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Ohio in 2025 for data collection and site identification.
Hydrogen gas is hard to detect in free air and most current equipment is not meant for field use. Many of the areas targeted can span well over 1000 square miles in surface area. The large area satellite sampling alone is far too coarse for the best site identification.
Due to the costs of exploratory drilling, we believe surface emission detection technologies are critical first steps to locating the best extraction sites. Enthusiast Hydrogen™ Corporation is developing Long Distance Laser Absorption and Refractive Spectroscopy™ (LDLARS); our in house areal detection technology. Combined with LIDAR surface and GPS location mapping, our scanning technology is designed to be inexpensive to operate, accurate in data capture, and fast to analyze.
Get It
Since digging 15 miles into the earth is not possible with current technologies, Enthusiast Hydrogen™ Corporation investigated ultra high power excimer laser ablation technology in 2023. We found it insufficient for our intended use. New technologies borrowed from the radio broadcast and fusion industries are currently being engineered and developed for borehole drilling.
If sufficient depths are achieved, and hydrogen found, extraction and capture technologies will need to be developed. Many technologies from the petroleum oil and gas industry will carry into what we do, but hydrogen gas is a little different to work with, and natural hydrogen at large volumes has not been worked with before. Enthusiast Hydrogen™ Corporation continues to develop hydrogen gas centrifugal densification and a version of high efficiency electro-dialysis (HEED) for at well diffuse gas capture and separation.
We are also seeking partners for geologic and petroleum material recovery from our drilling sites.
Use It
The purity of Gold Hydrogen™ remains to be verified. It is hypothesized to be 20-70% purity and some accumulations have tested as high as 96%. Low purities typically are insufficient for most uses.
Additionally, processing, storing and transporting hydrogen is hard. It wants to escape everything since it is the smallest atom. It is also very reactive so the containers you store it in need to be very special.
Even then you can’t store it forever; it will leak out. And hydrogen leaks are very bad - hydrogen is explosive in a very large range of concentrations in free air from 4% to 75%.
You can’t smell or see it, and there isn’t much for leak detection outside of the lab or unless you’re on top of it. Natural gas explodes in free air between 5 and 15%; immensely safer, but we have natural gas explosions every day.
One of our main goals is to develop sensing technologies to save people’s lives.
Our detection technologies and safety procedures are aimed both for prospectors entering this field looking for hydrogen as well as protective devices for general use in the long term by consumers.
Pure hydrogen gas by itself is valuable, as are many high value chemical feedstocks and preparations made from it.
Enthusiast Hydrogen™ Corporation aims to develop multiple at-well production processes for Gold Hydrogen™, carbon free electricity and heat with our sister company Enthusiast Power™ Corporation, nitric acid, carbon capture to methanol, and hydrogen reformation to ammonia with our
sister company Enthusiast Products Corporation.