Today’s Solutions: August 12, 2026

Despite skepticism from some quarters, it appears the hydrogen economy is beginning to take shape with accelerating speed. In the latest news, a research team at Tel Aviv University developed a way to speed up the rate of algal hydrogen production by about 400 percent. The news is significant because it provides another pathway for producing hydrogen from renewable sources that are far more sustainable than the current source of choice, natural gas. From a…

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