Kent Harrington

Kent is a videographer and professional storyteller. He regularly blogs for AIChE on ChEnected. See his latest posts below. You can also follow Kent on twitter @harringtonkent.
ChEnected contributions
SunEdison to Build World's Largest Solar Factory in India
Last December, SunEdison, a major solar developer based in Maryland Heights, Missouri,announced that it would build a huge, fully integrated — from polysilicon to finished panels &mdash
Chevron’s Gorgon Natural Gas Field Pushes the Limits of CCS
In the race to ship liquified natural gas to energy-hungry countries like Japan and China, Australia will easily surpass Qatar as the world’s largest LNG supplier before the end of the decade
Using Pure CO2 from Flue Gases to Grow Fish Food
Norway's biggest seafood companies have found a new use for pure CO2. They're planning to use it to grow algae brimming with omega-3 to enrich fish food.
Canada Turns On the World's First Commercial-Scale CCS Facility
Saskpower officials threw the switch on the new $1.4-billion carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) retrofit. It will reduce CO2 emissions by 90 percent.
Texas A&M Qatar Starts Gas and Fuels Research Center to Promote Innovation
Texas A&M just approved the new Qatar Gas and Fuels Research Center, which will serve as a collaborative hub to produce and explore the deluge of shale gas.
Northwestern's MacArthur Winner Thought Call From Foundation Was a Joke
For a former Eagle Scout and Cambridge scholar, what's the surest way to vault into America's top 1%? A MacArthur Grant is certainly one way.
Souping-Up Bio-Waste into Supercapacitors
Mitlin converted industrial hemp waste into a graphene-like nanomaterial for a fraction of the cost - $500 a ton - and it actually outperformed graphene.
New Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Fires Up in Iowa
After 10 years of R&D, 7 years of feedstock wrangling, and 2 years of construction, the Project Liberty cellulosic ethanol plant finally opened for business.
Flow Battery Makers Battle over New Electrolyte
One flow battery manufacturer tossed its iron-chromium battery chemistry to switch to much-more-expensive vanadium. Despite vanadium's cost, the company has created a better-performing and more competitive battery.
Waste-Gas-to-Biofuels Pioneer Lands Big Investors
Sean Simpson, a New Zealand entrepreneurial success story, strides on stage to tell how he scaled up while surviving on scraps of Kiwi venture capital.
Saudi Arabia Pays $30 Million for Prof Angela Belcher’s Biotechnology
Siluria says that it's solved one of the hardest problems in petrochemistry: the oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) into ethylene.
Global Solar Manufacturing Booming Again
Reversing a global glut, the solar industry is bracing for a shortage of solar panels.
Is Grid Storage a Myth?
One voice in the debate advocates a software solution, with predictive computer models tracking production and demand and then intelligently routing power where it’s needed.
Goldman Sachs' New Deep Freeze Energy Storage System
At Goldman Sachs' a huge thermal storage system makes 1.7 million pounds of ice every night, as cold anti-freeze passes through tanks to freeze water inside.
Testing Long-Term Energy Storage in New York
New York's transit system is using CellCube because it provides hours of long-duration power, setting it apart from the lithium-ion batteries of Solar City.