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
First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Headed for Tennessee
Maybe the U.S. nuclear renaissance hasn't fizzeled. Maybe the whole paradigm has simply shifted away from building single 1,000+ megawatt behemoths, to mass producing small modular reactors ranging in size from 45 to 300 megawatts.
Play Power Matrix - Siemens' New Online Energy Game
Can playing an online game actually change the debate on energy? Siemens thinks so. Learn more here and get a peek at the new game.
Using Behavioral Science to Lower Energy Bills
In January, Opower achieved a milestone: achieving two terawatt hours of energy savings — enough to take all the homes in a city the size of Sacramento off the electric grid for a year.
UMass ChemE Receives DuPont Award, Announces Breakthrough
UMass chemical engineer Paul Dauenhauer is one of only 14 scientists recognized by the DuPont Young Professors Program this year. He'll receive $75,000 for three years to support research.
United Airlines Signs Biofuel Deal With Startup AltAir
United has agreed to buy 15 million gallons of renewable jet fuel of the next three years.
Celebrating The Science and Art of Beer
To craft the astounding variety of modern beers, today's chemical engineers integrate the age-old and practical with science and whole-system thinking.
Maine Launches America's First Floating Wind Turbine
The first floating wind turbine in U.S. history took the plunge in Brewer, Maine, last week.
Tar Sands CO2 Emissions Could Feed Algae Biofuel
Canada is betting on carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reduce the environmental footprint associated with making fuel from oil sands, but one of the country's largest oil-sands producers is building an algae bioreactor to recycle CO2 to produce biofuels and other products such as fertilizer.
First Solar Snaps Up Silicon Startup TetraSun
For thin-film mega-company First Solar, the two-year crisis caused by the solar module supply glut may be almost over. The largest manufacturer of solar panels in the United States surprised silicon valley by announcing that it will buy startup TetraSun, which makes high-capacity silicon solar cells.
Billionaire Pays 20 More Students to Leave College
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who started Paypal and is now famous as Facebook's
Mosaic Lets Small Investors Fund Solar Projects
While new solar technology and installations often shows great promise, it's commonly financing that determines true success. Learn more about innovative crowd-sourced solar projects that are helping solar get off the ground in the U.S.
Duke Energy Fires Up Largest Wind Energy Storage Facility in the US
Duke Energy has started the largest battery storage project in the US at its 153 MW Notrees wind farm, where It can store 36 MWs of energy for 10,000 homes.
Looking Back: Oil Exploration Before Big Data
Watch as George Laguros, Geophysicist for the Marathon Oil Corporation in Houston, Texas, talks about analyzing seismic data in the present and reminisces about the days of analysis with a pencil, slide rule, and graph paper.
BP Puts Growing Wind Energy Division Up For Sale
BP has decided it's a good time to get out of the wind business, unloading 16 wind farms in nine states with a total capacity of about 2,600 megawatts. Short-sighted, or good business?
