A teal Hydrogen company that splits Methane (CH4) into Hydrogen (H) and Oxidized Carbon Nanotubes (O-CNT) would be significantly more profitable than one that splits into Hydrogen and Carbon Black. (Because after production costs, O-CNT have a significantly higher market price than carbon black.)
But do our communities want fracking wastewater in our aquifer groundwater or on our farm fields?
When is the break-even point for cracking Helium from natural gas at current and predicted Helium market prices?
teal hydrogen: electrolytic catalysis, renewable feedstocks
turquoise hydrogen: high-temp pyrolysis of methane
So e.g. [1] is turquoise hydrogen.
[1] "Production of hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from methane using a multi-pass floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition reactor with process gas recycling" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-025-01925-3
A renewable feedstock process that yields Hydrogen and O-CNT would be yielding teal hydrogen.
A natural gas process that yields Hydrogen and O-CNT would be yielding turquoise hydrogen.