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Eco Factor: Highly-efficient solar panels don’t need direct sun.

Already available in a variety of shapes and forms, solar panels are going to get more efficient and perhaps good-looking with a Jerusalem company called GreenSun, looking for…

Eco Factor: Carbon kiosks to generate fund for green programs.

If you are a frequent air traveler, but don’t want to have your carbon footprint swell with every travel, San Francisco is gearing up for an alternative. San Francisco International..

Eco Factor: Hybrid yacht designed to be powered by a gas/electric engine.

While the world is looking for possible ways to power all cars, bikes and gadgets with green sources of power, industrial designer Atanas Yanev believes in a more practical..

Eco Factor: Solar charging station for cars, motorcycles, bikes and gadgets.

The dream of a Bozen entrepreneur, Valentin Runggaldier, a multi-purpose solar charging station that can provide power to everything from electric cars to your iPod has…

Eco Factor: Replacing expensive platinum in fuel cells with a liquid-based system to lower the cost of fuel cells.

UK-based ACAL Energy has managed to reduce the amount of platinum used in a hydrogen fuel cell by as much as 80%, which then lowers..

Eco Factor: Energy saving prototype home generates renewable energy and harvests rainwater.

Daniel Libeskind has announced that his much anticipated prototype home of the future will be unveiled on September 29. The prototype home incorporates…

Eco Factor: Trabant gets an electric engine for zero emissions.

The Trabant, often recognized as a symbol of East German industrial failings by some and the worst car ever made by others, is hoping to wipe the slate clean with an all electric…

Eco Factor: Lamp made from plastic bottle tops.

Industrial designer Brett Duncan has tried to give trash a new glow by converting trashed plastic water bottles into a green lamp. Dubbed Re-lit, the lamp is made using tops of plastic bottles that…

Eco Factor: Solar and wind energy powered artwork.

While most may think that harnessing solar and wind energy is difficult, the folks over at Art Energy Design are trying to change the opinion of the masses with a whimsical art sculpture dubbed…

Eco Factor: Zero emission car to be powered by electricity.

Ray Lane, a major investor in Kleiner Perkins, has stated that Fisker Automotive is working on a new plug-in hybrid that would sell for $39,000 and will be available in 2012. The car will.