Despite a plethora of naysayers, research is progressing apace on deploying hydrogen as a sustainable fuel that also doubles as an energy storage opportunity. The latest development illustrates just how quickly that pace is accelerating. A research team based at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has just demonstrated a working solar powered device that breaks through one barrier to the hydrogen economy of the future. To be clear, at this time the primary source…