ChEnected Posts by Kent Harrington

After Thanksgiving dinner, most blame a compound in turkey known as tryptophan for making them drowsy, but this short video is here to debunk that canard!

How do you turn a reserved, soft-spoken New England dairy farmer into a media celebrity? Help her to buy and install a profitable anaerobic digester.

Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? If you're still in college or just beginning your career, answering this question will save you a lot of angst and floundering. Check out the video to learn more.

GlassPoint, a small startup, makes steam for enhanced oil recovery more cheaply by using the sun, particularly in overseas markets with higher gas prices.

Almost since he began studying chemical engineering, George Huber, UMass Amherst professor of chemical and biological engineering, has had an ambitious vision: to make all the same fuels and chemicals from biomass that we make today from crude oil.

Worldwide, approximately 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity and another 1 billion have extremely unreliable access. Many of the poor are forced to depend on kerosene lanterns. Hear about one man's solar solution to this problem in the accompanying video.

An oil field in the Netherlands, idle since 1996, was reopened using new enhanced oil recovery technology that allows 120 million more barrels to be extracted. Check out this video to hear more about how this technology is bringing life to a previously exhausted oil field.

America's decaying water infrastructure might actually provide an opportunity to generate cheap, green energy. Lucid Energy has demonstrated a way to install in-pipe water turbines that are amazingly efficient, and American cities such as San Antonio, TX, are planning to give the new technology a try.

A new fuel mixture has been developed to cut air pollution from cruise ships, oil tankers, and container ships burning traditional bunker oil, the cheapest and most highly polluting form of diesel fuel.