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.
Boeing just announced they've found a breakthrough: halophytes. These plants' seeds can be used to produce biofuel more efficiently than other well-known feedstocks.
Reliable and easy-to-use Solar Suitcases provide light and power for midwives and doctors to deliver babies and care for newborn babies in 25 countries.
By moving dramatically higher amounts of oil by rail, spills have increased. Spills in the US last year far outpaced the total amount spilled by railroads from 1975 to 2012.
Genetics and biological engineers are behind the re-engineering of a new jotropha that can now produce abundant yields required for cost-effective biofuel production.
The global merchant fleet is switching to LNG, so Clean Energy Fuels, founded by T. Boone Pickens, will begin building the first LNG station for cargo ships.
New York City's wastewater treatment facility is about to undertake a new program that will result in pipeline-quality natural gas to heat homes across the five boroughs.
Harvest Power recently launched its Energy Garden in British Columbia, which is the largest commercial-scale high solids anaerobic digester in North America.
Corvallis, Oregon-based NuScale Power just received $226 million in matching funds from The US DOE to continue developing its small module nuclear reactor.
Dr Sean Simpson, founder of LanzaTech, tells about an entrepreneurial wild ride, from his first idea to his deal to make jet fuel for Virgin Atlantic Airways.
An experimental 2,000 kw floating wind turbine and connected substation now send wind power to the grid, signaling a breakthrough for Japan and its energy crisis.
Debbie Sterling loves engineering. But at Stanford, where she trained as an engineer, she felt vastly outnumbered by men. So he decided to even things out.
Before Martin Tangney, a trained researcher, got his biobutanol project off the ground, he had to learn to become an entrepreneur, not just a scientist.
Samsung in South Korea is building Shell’s 488 meter, 600,000 dwt Prelude, the world’s largest, offshore, floating LNG facility, a totally new type of vessel.
Solana Station, constructed with six hours of molten storage that allows it to produce energy into the evening, shows off CSP's advantage over solar modules.
The next transformation of the ethylene story might be written by a small San Francisco startup that is on the verge of commercializing a new way to turn methane — normally cheaper than ethane — into chemicals, jet fuel, and gasoline.
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