ChEnected Posts by Kent Harrington

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.

Epic Rap Battle: Edison vs. Tesla

March 15, 2013. By Kent Harrington

The epic – now mythical – rivalry between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison is relived blow by blow in this short rap video.

System Attacks - Turning SCADA into NADA

March 12, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Intelligence reports show that a rising number of cyber attacks have targeted energy infrastructure around the world, accounting for 40% of all the incidents.

UCLA's New DIY Micro-Supercapacitor

March 08, 2013. By Kent Harrington

UCLA professor Richard Kaner and Maher El-Kady, a graduate student, have just fabricated a micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitor, using a simple DVD burner.

Malware Infects Gulf of Mexico Offshore Rigs

March 07, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Employees have inadvertently exposed vulnerabilities in network security that pose serious long-term threats. It's far too easy to imagine a worst case scenario: targeted cyber attacks, a blowout, or a spill.

Rebekah Scheuerle, Two-Time AIChE Student President, Receives Gates Scholarship

March 04, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Solar Energy Helps Alleviate Poverty in Guatemala

March 01, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Poor farmers with erratic income will pay for power as they need it with simple cellphone text messages—no more expensive candles, no more waiting.

The Father of Wind Energy: Meet Henrik Stiesdal

February 25, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Stiesdal, who has 85 patents to his name, has changed Siemens Wind Energy from a regional turbine builder into a global powerhouse, with research and manufacturing centers in major markets as far away as China and the United States.

Chinese Hackers Target U.S. Oil and Gas

February 22, 2013. By Kent Harrington

A group of China’s increasingly sophisticated cybersoldiers, known as the “Comment Crew," appear to be trying to penetrate America's critical infrastructure, including systems that remotely monitor oil and gas pipelines.

Wind Energy Dukes It Out With Fossil Fuels

February 20, 2013. By Kent Harrington

2012 turned out to be a year when old assumptions about wind energy began to shift as the planet’s installed wind capacity jumped from 238 GWs to about 282 GWs. Read about the big developments in Australia and the U.S.

Jeff Surma Wants to Electrify Municipal Waste

February 18, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Jeff Surma, a chemical engineer by training and now something of an energy visionary, has not only proven that InEnTec, his small startup, can profitably vaporize garbage by turning it into grid power, he's also convinced that the process could scale up nationally.

Siemens Installs First 6MW Offshore Turbines

February 15, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Five miles off the English coast in choppy 40-foot-deep water, Siemens quickly installed two of their newest 6MW wind turbines in just 24 hours at Gunfleet Sands.

China, Choking on Smog from Coal, Looks to CCS

February 13, 2013. By Kent Harrington

As China produces increasing amounts of pollution and CO2, it is also progressing by leaps and bounds in carbon-capture and storage projects.

Alta Rock's Enhanced Geothermal Breakthrough in Oregon

February 11, 2013. By Kent Harrington

AltaRock Energy, enhanced geothermal pioneer, reached a milestone in Oregon, near the Newberry Crater, after stimulating several fractures from one wellbore.

GE Births the World's Most "Brilliant" Wind Turbine

February 07, 2013. By Kent Harrington

GE's new wind turbine is enormously large, but it's also smart, thanks to a connection to the Industrial Internet, which allows it to be more efficient and profitable.

Breakthrough Industrial Carbon Capture Project Begins in Texas

February 04, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Shell Oil Invests in Solar Startup to Boost Enhanced Oil Recovery

February 01, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Is the Shape of the Solar Future about to Change?

January 29, 2013. By Kent Harrington

Capturing CO2 Directly from the Air on an Industrial Scale

January 25, 2013. By Kent Harrington

David Keith, Harvard professor of applied physics, thinks he's developed a way of capturing CO2 directly from the atmosphere, and, as he says, it's practically a way to "print money."

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