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
Two Biofuel Firsts: Honeywell and Boeing Land Transatlantic Flights at the Paris Air Show
Departing Morristown, NJ, and arriving at Paris-Le Bourget Airport seven hours later, a Honeywell corporate jet became the first aircraft to fly from North America to Europe on a 50/50 blend of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel and standard jet fuel. Honeywell, symbolically framing the flight's significance, had their pilot follow Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic—a perfect beginning for this year's Paris Air Show.
Sun+Sand=Art: 3D Solar-Powered Printer Uses Two of Earth's Most Abundant Resources
This art project by Markus Kayser isn't meant to replace today's energy and labor intensive manufacturing any time soon. It's a concept piece.
The Entire Human Genome at Your Fingertips on an iPad Near You—Free
Logging too much time on your iPad playing Angry Birds? How about a truly productive app? Browse the human genome on your iPad. Twelve years ago the complete genome wasn't even accessible. Now you can hold the work of Celera Corporation, government universities, and research centers from around the world in your hands. Isn't this is the way technology is supposed to work, making life simpler and more productive at the same time? Take your iPad to the lab guilt-free and share it with colleagues.
Goggle Invests $280 Million in Largest US Residential Solar Leasing Firm
Recently, Fast Company noted that
Ching Tang, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Shares $100,000 and the Prestigious Wolf Prize for Chemistry
Saudi Arabia Openly Defies Iran and Opec by Upping Oil Output to Contain Global Demand
Opec talks in Vienna rancorously broke down last Wednesday.
Shell to Build Game-Changing $12B Floating LNG Facility off Australia
Shell's floating liquid natural gas (LNG) facility will allow the estimated 3 trillion cubic feet of gas off the coast of Australia to be economically developed. It will be the world's largest floating structure: 488 meters long and more than four football fields end to end.
Penn State Researchers Have a Simple, New Process to Cleanly Extract Oil From Tar Sands
How a $3.8 Billion Government Investment Created a Research Revolution
The fabled Human Genome Project—the $3.8-billion international mapping effort led by the United States that ran from 1988 to 2003—was one of the last "big government" research projects, although the internet, originally a small, DARPA project, was quietly gaining momentum in the background. The ambitiously stated HGP goal, "to understand the human genome," felt t oskeptics a little too Star-Treky, representing the rump-end of Kenndy-Johnson-era big government idealism. I don't even want to talk about the loss caused by the long-aborted Texas Super Collider.
Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Gives 20 Whiz Kids $100K Each—to Quit College
Peter Thiel thinks big. He co-founded PayPal, and later became Facebook's first outside investor and behind-the-scenes mentor. Now he’s focused on dealing with what he sees as a lack of innovation in the U.S.
