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.
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Intel Employees Grow Algae By Harnessing their Arizona Chip Fab's Carbon Dioxide
Intel's on an roll. Just in time for Earth Day, their huge, Arizona chip fab was the first semiconductor manufacturing company to receive LEED certification for its entire campus. The improvements that led to the new LEED classification came from Intel employees, and, as the whole idea of sustainability gains momentum at Intel, many new ideas are starting to come from outside the research lab.
Celebrating Earth Day Pt2: Going Extreme Nature (Via YouTube)
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Celebrate Earth Day With a 100-Year-Old Belgian Tree and Its 4730 Facebook Friends
The New Cola Wars: Coke and Pepsi Battle to Bring 100% Plant-Based Bottles to Customers
I thought that the Coke and Pepsi wars, which began in the 70's (click to see a vintage, Michael Jackson, Pepsi TV ad), were long over, comfortably settled into a tit-for-tat, high-fructose-opoly. Now, suddenly, beverage industry magazines are reporting that the cola wars have erupted again: this time in a war for the first 100% plant-based bottle.
Where Can a Chemistry Degree Take You? For Some, the International Space Station
NASA astronaut Cady Coleman has been living and working on the International Space Station since the Russian Soyuz spacecraft
A Post Jeopardy! Human Ego Boost: Symphony of Science Celebrates with an "Ode to the Brain"—OURS!
Watson's victory over two former Jeopardy!
F-22 Raptor Breaks Mach 1.5 on Camelina-Based Biofuel, the C-17 Globemaster lll Certified for Unrestricted Biofuel Flights
Edwards Air Force Base, CA—An F-22 Raptor completed its final test flight March 18 on a 50/50 fuel blend of conventional petroleum-based JP-8 and a camelina-based jet fuel. This flight test marked the first time this type of biofuel has been used in a fifth-generation fighter like the F-22, which has been selected as the proxy for the other fighter aircraft.
Kilowatt Sutra: Lighting Up India's Rural Villages Using Unwanted Rice Husks
No country has more citizens living without power than India, where more than 400 million people have no electricity.
Do-It-Yourself Fractals Coming to the Web
Tom Beddard, a web developer and designer with a PhD in laser physics, has combined his math and science expertise with his visual abilities in a new Web-based program that creates gorgeous 3D fractal worlds. Take a look at the sample video in the panel to the right.
Go South Young ChemE: Brazil Unbound, Riding the Bio-Energy Boom, Needs You
Brazil's energy sector is booming and investors have recently moved billions of dollars into advanced, sustainable biofuels, changing the country profoundly. Now the country desperately needs young scientific talent.
Rocket Cars Are So 20th Century! Student-Built EV Smashes Solar Speed Record
Only a few weeks ago at the HMAS Albatross Navy base airstrip in Nowra, Australia, a student-designed and built solar car broke the record for the world's fastest solar-powered vehicle.
The Sunswift IV—nick-named "IVy" by the 60-member University of New South Wales team—crushed the previous 48 mph record by [...]