Solar Fuels: Storing Energy from the Sun | Theresa McCormick | TEDxSalem

Solar fuels can capture and store energy from the sun to decrease carbon emissions caused by burning petrochemicals. This talk will describe exactly what a fuel is and how solar fuels are made and used. It will also showcase an exciting new solar fuel that can help move us toward sustainable energy. This research project is funded by NSF grant 1800599. Theresa McCormick is a chemistry professor at Portland State University where she studies how to capture the sun’s energy and convert it into useable fuel. She received her PhD in 2008 from Queen’s University in Kinston, Ontario, Canada. Her PhD work focused on molecules that can be used in OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes). She did two postdoctoral fellowships, one at the University of Rochester (studying solar hydrogen production) and one at the University of Toronto (developing new materials for plastic solar cells). Theresa grew up in rural Ontario, Canada with her parents and two brothers. She lives south of Portland with her husband and two-year-old daughter. She is co-founder of a new start-up, AirOmatix that is developing technology to remove and store oxygen.
research page: pdx.edu/mccormick-lab
airomatix.net: start-up webpage This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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