New buildings in Japan should compulsorily install solar panels for the maximum utilization of this renewable resource of energy. As the country is still battling with the aftershocks of tsunami and the worst ever nuclear disaster of Fukushima and…
Japan to make rooftop solar panels mandatory for all new buildings Read More »
The Sun Dog Racer is all set to give a tough fight at the Annual Solar Car Challenge which is to be held at Texas in the month of July this year. The name is totally unsuggestive of the kind of vehicle, except for the fact that it is a car that…
Sun Dog Racer – Story of hand-carving a vehicle Read More »
The power of nature never fails to stun the creative mind and help them negotiate new dimensions of resourceful justice. Designers like Jeroen Verhoeven seems to use this creativity to create fantasies that play with practical elements and unfolds a…
Blue Chandelier by Verhoeven makes a stylish green statement Read More »
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Sustainable skyscrapers are an eco-friendly approach towards solving the problems of housing of an ever growing human population. Today many architects are seriously looking at building sustainable skyscrapers which…
Future Perfect – Sustainable skyscrapers with integrated renewable energy generators Read More »
Here on Ecofriend, we have seen numerous electric bike concepts earlier. We have also gone through a multitude of eco friendly motorbike designs. But, this concept here fastidiously manages to blend the above two into a simplistic yet convenient mode.
Scientists have since long been trying to generate alternative sources of energy and one such source of energy that has evoked interest due to its potential, is hydrogen, as it can not just generate electricity in a fuel cell but also power a…
Using bio-engineering to generate hydrogen from algae! Read More »
Deciding to take architecture to a nigh new level of organic form, India-based design firm Studio Symbiosis is all set to start construction on their ardently ambitious yet exceptionally exquisite Athletic Ripples project. Marked as a mega sports…
Germany being the highest contributor of greenhouse house emissions in the EU has already made it clear that, to meet the country’s electricity demands, they would be only using renewable sources by 2050. That ambitious yet conscientious statement…
Underground pumped storage hydroelectricity plants proposed for West Harz, Germany Read More »
Whenever we think of those dramatic high speed police chases, the bantam Mitsubishi i-MiEV certainly doesn’t come to our mind. But where this electric hatchback lacks in raw power, it does make up for it by its zero emission green technology. And…
Previously we had talked about how piezoelectricity can be used for a myriad of innovative conceptions ranging from nano scale generators, sidewalks to even showers and energy generating fabrics. But Korean designers Yonggu Do, Jun-se Kim and Eun-ha..
Ecopad – A concept tablet that can be self powered by ‘tapping’ into piezoelectricity Read More »
