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
How Hungry Microbes Cleaned Up the Gulf Oil Spill
Professors David Valentine and Igor Mezic have developed a new computer model that demonstrates the roles of underwater topography, currents and bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico led to the disappeara
Want the Latest Mars Rover Photos? There’s an App for That
If you're into NASA and space exploration, check out the latest iPhone and Android apps that allow you to enjoy images directly from the Mars rover Opportunity and more.
Researchers Create “Neon” Sign and Biosensor from E. Coli
Using a biopixel display composed of millions of living E.coli bacterial cells that fluoresce in unison like a blinking Las Vegas neon sign, bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a bacterial sensor that can easily detect low levels of arsenic.
Fukushima Update: TEPCO Didn’t Adopt Key Three Mile Island Safety Lesson
Immediately after the earthquake and tsunami, TEPCO's improvised response was confused and plagued by human error, including the disastrous assumption that an emergency cooling system was working.
Study Finds Small Modular Reactors Could Revive US Nuclear Industry
In the wake of Fukushima and its chilling effect on nuclear policy around the world, a newly released study from the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute finds that small modular reactors may hold the key to an actual renaissance of U.S. nuclear power.
A Short Film about Energy Waste that Amuses and Haunts
Where can you find energy waste? In the city?
Printing A Human Kidney
Atala, whose team developed the first lab-grown organ, explains how his lab's 3-D printing technology is used to create human organs. In addition to the bladder that was transplanted, Wake Forest has also managed to engineer miniature kidneys from bio-materials and cells.
Three Free Online Databases Chemical Engineers Can't Live Without
IBM announced plans to give the National Institutes of Health a database of more than 2.4 million chemical compounds. NIH will add this information to PubChem, a freely available database of chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities.
2011 Christmas Gifts For the Chemical Engineer Who Has and Wants Everything
Tired of your desk job? Tedious PowerPoint presentations wasting your time? Become an entrepreneur by joining the world's novelty-gift supply chain--but don't open a factory in Bangladesh.
Tiny Solar Cells Pump Out Record Amounts of CPV Electricity
Dutham, North Carolina-based startup Semprius has taken the transfer-printing technology it originally developed for flexible electronics and applied it to solar cells. It's now producing low-cost cells the size of a ballpoint pen tip and able to convert 41 percent of solar energy into electricity.
Experts and Media Dismiss Japanese Prime Minister's "Cold Shutdown" Declaration
During a television address on Friday, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said the Fukushima nuclear reactors have been brought to a state of cold shutdown.