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An energy storage solution for the future | Margaret Donelick | TEDxUIdaho

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Abandoned mine sites in the United States can create environmental disturbances that last decades or longer.This talk proposes an idea that not only permanently rehabilitates such sites, but re-purposes them to create a renewable energy power plant large enough to allow entire cities to rely 100 percent on intermittent renewable energy sources like wind or solar power.
 Margaret has a bachelors (UC Santa Barbara), masters (University of Wyoming), and Ph.D. (Dalhousie University) degrees in geophysics and has worked for six years for a large international oil company generating oil prospects and for eighteen years for her own small geotechnical company dating rocks. In 2015 she founded BiMBy Power along with her husband, and they applied for patent protection for an idea to use abandoned mine sites for energy storage facilities for renewable energy sources. BiMBy Power placed second in the Be the Entrepreneur Bootcamp in 2016 and won the largest potential impact award from the Cascadia CleanTech Business Accelerator in 2017 for the BiMBy concept. Margaret is CEO of BiMBy Power Corporation. 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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