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Eco Factor: Biogas plant converts manure to methane and electricity.

Cargill has built and is operating an anaerobic digester on the Bettencourt Dairy B6 Farm that is converting manure from the farm’s 6000 cows into 1 million KWh of electricity..

Eco Factor: Sustainable development to convert parking lots into urban forests.

As the auto industry is struggling, concrete-covered expanses where car dealerships used to thrive have been converted into desolate wastelands. In California, a…

Eco Factor: Prototype vehicle with a highly fuel-efficient engine.

While 50mpg might sound wonderful to some, check out this vehicle built by a team of student designers from Laval University in Quebec, Canada. The vehicle which took the grand…

The rise in the demand for renewable energy has made researchers think about alternatives for solar and wind generators, which can provide continuous energy to the proposed “Smart Grids” of the future. Harvesting solar power from space might be a.

Eco Factor: Solar installation to generate up to 1.84MW of renewable energy.

Toyota has officially inaugurated the solar panel park on the roof of Toyota Parts Center Europe (TPCE). Covering about 80,000sqm, the solar installation is the one of…

Eco Factor: Concept generator creates electricity from wind.

Designed by Embossed Design, the Zephyr wind generator has been conceptualized to cater to the ever growing demand for electricity. The wind generator provides electricity in a cleaner..

Eco Factor: Zero-emission concept car powered by electric motors.

The BMW Sequence GT by Seungmo Lim, a graduate student at Pforzheim University in Germany, is an all-electric concept vehicle that takes only a minute to refuel. The vehicle’s…

Eco Factor: Solar cells to capture sunlight from any direction or angle.

Kyosemi Corporation has unveiled tiny spherical solar cells that can be used to create energy harvesting windows in the not-so-distant future. The Sphelar solar cells are…

Eco Factor: Scientist estimates a 3 degree decline in global temperatures by blowing bubbles in oceans.

The steep rise in global temperatures has made scientists all over the globe think about possible ways to reduce the effects of global warming..

Eco Factor: Sustainable garden office better energy-efficiency.

The O-Pod is a energy-efficient structure developed by the designers behind the EcoHab super efficient dome-shaped house. The O-Pod offers a sustainable space for a garden office,…