Eco Factor: Sustainable tower generates about 8MW of wind power.
An entry at the Taiwan Tower Competition, the Tower of Power by NL Architects is a 300-meter high freestanding tower with sightseeing and recreational functions. The tower…
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Eco Factor: Low-cost fuel cells developed by replacing platinum with cheaper materials.
Researchers at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created all-ceramic thin-film solid-oxide fuel cells that don’t contain.
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Eco Factor: PV power plant to generate about 70MW of renewable electric power.
SunEdison announced plans to build Europe’s largest photovoltaic power plant in Italy in March this year. Just nine short months after being given the green light,…
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Eco Factor: Technology promises better fuel consumption by converting engine exhaust into electricity.
Researchers at Purdue University are creating a system that harvests heat from an engine’s exhaust to generate electricity, reducing a car’s…
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Eco Factor: Silica from desert sand to be used to make solar panels for renewable energy.
A team of Japanese scientists have come up with an ingenious proposal to provide 50 percent of the world’s energy needs by utilizing sand from the Sahara…
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Eco Factor: Sustainable music player doesn’t need extra batteries.
Industrial designers Chih-Wei Wang and Shou-His Fu have come up with a concept music playback device that can be attached onto the user’s skin whenever they are exercising or..
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Eco Factor: Solar cell achieves conversion efficiency of 39.2 percent.
Boeing’s subsidiary Spectrolab has developed new record-breaking solar cell, which achieves a conversion efficiency of 39.2 percent. The solar cells, dubbed C3MJ+, are the…
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Eco Factor: Sustainable hotel designed to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent.
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) have announced the completion of India’s first LEED Gold Certified hotel, which has been built in the city of Hyderabad in.
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Eco Factor: Zero-emission concept vehicle powered by electric motors.
Celebrating the company’s 200th anniversary, designers over at Peugeot have revealed a new concept vehicle that merges the company’s expertise in making two and…
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Eco Factor: Self-sufficient tower is powered by renewable wind energy.
OFF Architecture has proposed a sustainable tower for Taiwan that oversees the Taichung basin and serves as an observatory of the central Taiwan ecosystem that ranges from the..
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