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Eco Factor: Concept car to be powered by an all-electric engine.

Tesla has been working hard to develop next-generation clean cars that are powered by alternative fuels, primarily electricity. However, most of these concepts are either too pricey..

Eco Factor: Sustainable tower designed to generate more renewable energy that it consumes.

The 10MW Tower is the brainchild of designers at Studied Impact, which has been designed to generate 10X more energy than it needs. The tower is equipped with a

Eco Factor: Sustainable architecture designed to have minimal impact on the environment.

Designed by Coolie Calihan and Charles Johnson, the Cidade Suspensa (Suspended City in Brazilian Portuguese), aims to refine urban architecture and bring it…

Eco Factor: Sustainable skyscraper to be made using natural materials.

The shortage of water and land has resulted in political unrest in Sudan for decades. However, the recent discovery of the world’s tenth largest underground lake in the…

Eco Factor: Life preserver keeps the user warm using solar energy.

A Taiwanese student has developed a high-tech life preserver that looks like an ordinary plastic life preserver but has been designed to be charged using solar energy to keep its…

Eco Factor: Thermocell to generate electricity from waste heat.

Apart from developing technology to harvest abundant solar and wind energy, there are a few researchers who are concentrating on waste materials, such as heat, which can be tapped to..

Eco Factor: Intelligent device changes color to save water.

The Waterpebble by product designer Paul Priestman is a revolutionary device that can encourage individuals to reduce their shower time to conserve water. The intelligent device…

Eco Factor: Gribble turns abundant wood into biofuel.

Researchers at the University of York in Britain have identified the potential of the wood-eating gribble to cheaply convert abundant wood and straw fiber into biofuel. For centuries the…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission transport system based on OLEV technology.

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled a proof-of-concept OLEV train for public transportation in Seoul’s Grand Park in…

Eco Factor: Sustainable developed city to be made using recycled materials.

Designed by Deric Fourie, Dan Bernos, Michael Menuet and Pablo del Amo, the Tower City in Marseilles envisions the city of Marseilles as a stacked skyscraper that sits on.