Montpellier: the start-up Lookup Geoscience wants to facilitate the exploration of natural resources

Sébastien Lacaze, co-fondateur de la start-up Lookup Geoscience. DR – DR

Recently created in Montpellier, the start-up Lookup Géoscience wants to make its contribution to the field of renewable energies. To do this, it has created a "Google Maps of the subsoil", which aims to facilitate the exploration of natural energy resources, such as natural hydrogen.

The energy transition is accelerating, and with it, new opportunities are emerging in the field of renewable energies. It is in this context that Sébastien Lacaze founded Lookup Geoscience with his partner Ehssan Mesbahi, a Montpellier start-up that wants to facilitate the exploration of underground energy resources.

“The company Lookup Geoscience aims to help accelerate the energy transition by providing software to explorers of new energies in the underground” explains Sébastien Lacaze. The company focuses primarily on two promising areas: natural hydrogen and geothermal energy.

Natural hydrogen, the holy grail of renewable energy

Natural hydrogen, a little-known but potentially revolutionary resource, is at the heart of Lookup Geoscience's innovation. “Natural hydrogen, in fact, is linked to the circulation of water in the subsoil and to contact with iron-rich rocks” explains Lacaze. This phenomenon, called radiolysis, causes a fracturing of the water molecule, thus releasing hydrogen that naturally rises to the surface.

The start-up develops software tools to facilitate the detection and exploitation of these resources. “Today, there is no suitable tool. “The existing ones are too expensive, and not adapted to this renewable industry,” the founder emphasizes.