Eco Factor: Traveling 3775km on a solar-powered trike.
Year 8 to Year 12 students from Ballarat’s Damascus College are attempting to ride their way into the record books by riding a distance of 3775 km in about two weeks’ time on a…
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Eco Factor: Naturally insulated night shelters generate solar energy.
With over 100,000 homeless people in Delhi, the government sets up night shelters each winter. However, the plans for this winter are different. This year’s shelters will…
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Eco Factor: Citrus waste recycled into biogas and ethanol.
Researchers in different parts of the world recycle organic waste into alternative fuel that can power our lives in a better way. However, unlike other forms of organic waste, composing…
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Eco Factor: Energy-efficient homes to be built by Velux Group.
Velux Group has unveiled the Model Home 2020 project to develop sustainable housing for people living in European countries. The group is planning to build six full-scale, experimental.
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Eco Factor: New approach to produce more sustainable and cost-competitive biofuel.
The conventional process used to produce biofuel from algae destroys algae to extract their oil. Researchers at DOE’s Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State…
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Eco Factor: Space-solar plant to be constructed by 2016.
California’s state legislators have finally given a green light to the first-of-its-kind space-based solar project. California’s biggest energy utility PG&E has announced that they…
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Eco Factor: Ecofriendly charger runs on solar energy.
RAYvolution Solar Products is catering to the growth in the number of portable electronic devices with a charger that doesn’t tax the electrical grid. The company has launched a new solar…
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Eco Factor: Residential complex designed to generate solar energy for power.
Dubai has always served as a place where the most amazing and sometimes unrealistic architectural dreams come true. Be it the World Island or the Palm Islands, Dubai has.
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Eco Factor: Sculpture made from recycled motorcycle parts.
Eco-minded designers at RoboSteel have come up with a life size MotorCycleMan (aka RoboMan), a human sculpture built entirely from recycled motorcycle parts. The sculpture is on show at…
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Eco Factor: Proposal to green Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway with a solar and wind linear park.
After serving Toronto for more than 45 years, The Gardiner Expressway is in need of renovation. While some have proposed a complete tear-down,…
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