Today’s Solutions: October 18, 2026

The more than 1400 oil and gas platforms currently located in the North Sea might eventually be used to fight the problem they helped to create: unsustainable energy generation. By revamping these installations, they could become part of the energy revolution as hydrogen production and storage facilities. Multiple organizations, including oil giants Shell and Total, but also Siemens and Dutch research institute TNO, are now working together on giving fossil fuel infrastructure in the North

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