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Eco Factor: Sustainable development to harvest renewable energy and conserve water.

Architects all over the world are busy designing developments that are sustainable and have minimal impact on the delicate ecosystem. Designers over at Mithun…

Eco Factor: PV module manufacturing facility to harvest solar energy for power.

Vipiemme Solar has announced that the company’s new manufacturing facility will be powered by renewable energy. The manufacturing site will produce photovoltaic…

Eco Factor: Concept system to harvest solar energy.

Researchers opine that harvesting 40 minutes of sunlight falling on the entire planet can power the world for about a year. However, till date only 1% of that energy is harvested and converted…

Eco Factor: Prototype device to harvest renewable energy.

Researchers at the Cornell University have created an energy-harvesting tree that uses the flittering of leaves to produce electricity. Dubbed the “Piezo-tree”, the system carries…

Eco Factor: Sustainable office building harvests solar energy for heat and power.

Coca-Cola has unveiled new headquarters building in Madrid that follows new sustainability criteria to improve energy-efficiency and reduce the center’s…

Eco Factor: Traffic regulating robots powered by solar energy.

Qatar’s Public Works Authority (Ashghal) with support from the Qatar Science Club will soon be developing new robots that will replace the manual methods used in guiding traffic at..

Eco Factor: Concept zero-emission vehicle made from recyclable materials.

Industrial designer James Yarger has come up with a zero-emission transportation concept dubbed the Yarga YoYo that is primarily a single seat inner city transportation…

Eco Factor: Low-emission motorcycle runs on a hybrid engine.

Indian manufacturer Eko Vehicles has announced the development of the ET-120, which is being claimed to be the world’s first production hybrid motorcycle. The ET-120 has been developed.

Eco Factor: Prefabricated living module for sustainable living.

IRO Prefab is the work of industrial designer Mira Yung, which has been designed considering the need for low impact sustainable homes. The IRO can be fabricated locally or can be..

Eco Factor: Fuel-saving aircraft uses helium for lift.

The Dynalifter aircraft is a fuel-saving combination of an aircraft and a heavier-than-air airship that requires almost no ground infrastructure. The airship gets aloft with up to 80% lift…