Tom Darrah, a co-founder of Koloma, a hydrogen exploration and extraction startup, likes to draw a parallel from his company to another fuel company also founded in Columbus: Standard Oil.
“I think of it as how Standard Oil was founded. We’re likely to explore in Ohio and around the world, as well as in the U.S., but the exploration engine will be here in Ohio,” says Darrah, the Ohio State University geologist whose research spawned what could become a global name in one of the 21st century’s most promising clean fuels.