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Eco Factor: Onion waste transformed into electricity, heat and cattle feed.

Gills Onions, the nation’s largest processor of fresh onions, has built an anaerobic digester system at its Oxnard, California facility, which will help the company…

Eco Factor: Solar charger boost converted and optimal Li-ion charge controller offers up to 85% efficiency.

Techtium Ltd. has unveiled the world’s first dedicated Li-ion solar charging IC with record breaking efficiency. The company’s TEC 103..

Eco Factor: Hydrogen for fuel can be extracted from water without any wastage.

Of all the sources of green energy, hydrogen seems the most promising as it burns with no harmful emissions at all. Research has been going on for decades to find the…

Eco Factor: Concept three-wheeled electric cruiser powered by solar energy.

Leaning in the direction you want to turn is normally associated with motorcycles, where the speed determines the angle at which it leans. Industrial designer Ionut…

Eco Factor: Electric commuter bike ideal for a short-distance commutes.

Analysis points out that 50% of all distances covered with a car are less than five kilometers and about 90% of all distances are shorter than 90km, and mostly all urban…

Eco Factor: Soil-less cultivation system makes growing food easy.

The decrease in the amount of land available for cultivating food and the rapid increase in population has tempted designers to think about ways growing food can be made simple,…

Eco Factor: Researchers working on new technology to generate geothermal energy at low temperatures and low cost.

Research conducted by MIT estimates that enhanced geothermal systems could provide 10% of the electricity demands of the nation by…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission super car powered by electricity.

For all those in love with green cars, but don’t want to sacrifice the thrill a super car delivers for the environment, Mercedes-Benz will soon be launching an all-electric super sports.

Eco Factor: Kinetic energy powered concept mouse.

Be it any desktop or laptop, computing for me is incomplete without a mouse. Like most notebook users I too make use of a wireless mouse to ease my work. Industrial designer Natalie Miklosic seems..

Eco Factor: Concept phone powered by solar energy.

Industrial designer Cyrene Quiamco took inspiration from a Swiss Army knife to design a concept phone that eases music, contact information and other data transfer that till date is mostly…