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
Cooking Tortillas With Solar Power in Mexico
Under a blazing sun in Mexico's central mountain range, locally made, dish-shaped, solar panels suck up the area's intense light and beam 2000° heat into local kitchens.
Taking a Drone on an Oil Pipeline Inspection Test Drive
Watch a demonstration of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) conducted by BP to improve pipeline inspections in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
Christmas Gifts for the ChemE Who Has Everything
'Tis the season to revel in holiday-induced techno-fantasy. Better design. More innovation. And Moore's Law on steroids. This year's best products, whether inexpensive stocking stuffers or pricey lifestyle augmentation, let lucky recipients open up whole new worlds, important for any new, must-have technology.
ARPA-E Gifts $130 Million to Cutting-Edge Energy Ideas
An early Christmas came to energy startups when The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) announced that 66 new projects will receive $130 million. This latest round of awards brings the total portfolio to 285 projects since its 2009 launch.
Recession Silver Lining: Microgrids Help Cities Save Money
Faced with balancing budgets, smart city managers across the country have successfully turned to microgrids and LEDs to cut electricity bills by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Check out the video to learn more.
Take an Interactive, 360° Tour of a Siemens' Wind Turbine
If you've ever wanted to see and experience (with seductive sound) one of the world's most promising renewable energy sources firsthand, Siemens has built a cutting edge 360º interactive tour that puts you high above the ocean on top of a wind turbine.
Houston's SURGE Energy Accelerator Wants You!
Open to companies from all over the world, Surge is the only accelerator in the U.S. focused completely on energy software. It's now accepting applications for its second spring class, when it will take ten startups and provide them with $30,000 in seed funding, free office space, and access to dozens of mentors in exchange for a six percent equity stake.
DOE Launches New "Battery Hub" at the Argonne National Laboratory
The Department of Energy will soon open a research hub devoted exclusively to improving battery and energy storage performance at the Argonne National Laboratory (outside Chicago) and will fund it with $120 million over the next five years.
Self-Taught Sixteen-Year-Old Inventor Wows MIT
Leaving Sierra Leone for the first time, 16-year-old Kelvin Doe flew to the US to participate in MIT's fabled practitioner's program, where he demo-ed his soldered and duct-taped radio hardware to admiring undergrads.
Startup Hits Bio-Crude Production Milestone
After hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding and stock market IPOs, second-generation biofuels still hadn't moved beyond small pilot plants, despite rosy federal projections.
Science Debunks the Thanksgiving Turkey/Tryptophan Myth
After Thanksgiving dinner, most blame a compound in turkey known as tryptophan for making them drowsy, but this short video is here to debunk that canard!
Vermont’s Cows Sell Power Back to the Grid
How do you turn a reserved, soft-spoken New England dairy farmer into a media celebrity? Help her to buy and install a profitable anaerobic digester.
Are You an Entrepreneur?
Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? If you're still in college or just beginning your career, answering this question will save you a lot of angst and floundering. Check out the video to learn more.
