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Eco Factor: Solar-powered charger for portable devices.

GoBe Solar has launched a new Solar Briefcase and Power Hub, which the company claims can extend your laptop’s battery life for an estimated 3-6 hours. The device is a combination of a…

Eco Factor: Solar-powered laptop and gadget charger.

If you’re travelling by your car, you’re never away from a charging point which can recharge your cellphones and navigation devices. However, pedestrians are always at a risk of losing the..

Eco Factor: Energy efficient systems and wind turbines to grace Sears Tower.

Often being criticized as one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gases, the Sears Tower will be changing the misconception, at least for itself, as the authorities.

Eco Factor: Gas for heating homes and even running cars produced from wood.

A new kind of facility has opened its doors in Austria, which is unique because it uses wood to produce gas that can then be used in a wide range of applications ranging from.

Eco Factor: Energy-monitoring tool tempts homeowners to save energy.

By far, monitoring energy and hence conserving it is considered the best way to get out of the ever increasing energy crisis. With renewable energy generating systems still not…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission electric car powered by solar energy.

The enhancement in solar technology has made it possible for car designers to incorporate tiny solar modules on the body of the car to generate energy on the move. The Bionamic by…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission personal aircraft powered by electricity.

After being regarded as one of the most CO2-intensive industries in the world, the aviation industry has tried to take a hairpin-turn with the prototypes of solar electric…

Eco Factor: Synthetic trees to capture CO2 from the air and convert it into liquid CO2.

Research scientists at the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University have come up with an ingenious idea to capture atmospheric..

Eco Factor: Dormitories made from locally harvested bamboo collect rainwater.

Architecture firm TYIN Tegnestue has designed sustainable dwellings that will serve as dormitories for an orphanage in Noh Bo, a small village on the Thai-Burmese…

Eco Factor: Chicken feathers used to make fuel cells cost-effective.

With the demand for chicken increasing substantially, poultry waste is also on the rise, which mainly consists of chicken feathers basically used up in the landfill or converted..