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.
A stealth, 10-year-old startup has emerged as a serious rival to Tesla in the race to achieve grid battery manufacturing by spending $1 billion to turn an old North Carolina Philip Morris cigarette factory into a manufacturing hub capable of pumping out "several gigawatts" of capacity a year.
Norway's biggest seafood companies have found a new use for pure CO2. They're planning to use it to grow algae brimming with omega-3 to enrich fish food.
Saskpower officials threw the switch on the new $1.4-billion carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) retrofit. It will reduce CO2 emissions by 90 percent.
Texas A&M just approved the new Qatar Gas and Fuels Research Center, which will serve as a collaborative hub to produce and explore the deluge of shale gas.
Mitlin converted industrial hemp waste into a graphene-like nanomaterial for a fraction of the cost - $500 a ton - and it actually outperformed graphene.
After 10 years of R&D, 7 years of feedstock wrangling, and 2 years of construction, the Project Liberty cellulosic ethanol plant finally opened for business.
One flow battery manufacturer tossed its iron-chromium battery chemistry to switch to much-more-expensive vanadium. Despite vanadium's cost, the company has created a better-performing and more competitive battery.
Sean Simpson, a New Zealand entrepreneurial success story, strides on stage to tell how he scaled up while surviving on scraps of Kiwi venture capital.
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