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Eco Factor: Drag racing car emits water and oxygen. A chemical that is an active ingredient in most hair dyes is tested for feasibility in a drag racer with astonishing results. While hydrogen fuel cells are expensive and electric cars are slow,...

With the world already facing a dearth of energy and fossil fuels, environmentalists are in an effort to devise new sources of power that not only give us an alternate fuel source but do that without heating our planet. With every passing year these..

Eco Factor: Solar and wind power generators installed at Yamaha’s Nakaze plant. Yamaha Motors has installed solar and wind power generators at its Nakaze plant in Japan. The installation comes according to the company’s initiatives to make the.

Eco Factor: Super-concrete can store solar energy at high temperatures, thereby reducing its cost per kilowatt hour. The U.S. Department of Energy will give an award of $770,000 to researchers at the University of Arkansas, who are developing a...

Following closely behind the Camper Lotus that we reported yesterday, today another urban concept car has found a parking space on Ecofriend. Understanding about such green futuristic vehicles and penning their salient features makes me frown at my...

This has seriously brought a smile on my face, now that's something to eye upon for a greener tomorrow. Biodiesel at its best - cheap, clean fuel to power your automobiles. No more hiccups regarding the rising fuel prices. The FuelPod2 takes any...

Being the largest transportation consumer and bus producer in the world comes with a heavy price tag. And China has been paying for it for the past decade. Come 2009 and Chinese roads would endorse clean Fuel Cell Buses (FCB), one of the small...

The green roof atop the Indianapolis Museum of Art's parking structure stands alone in terms of major sustainable development projects, and now it's looking hard at more sustainability measures. The leaders of the city hope that roof greening...

According to a Brazilian newspaper, termites now come to challenge corn and sugar cane-based technology in ethanol-production, a top United Nations environment official said. A termites host microbes capable of transforming wood waste into sugar that.

With industries getting innovative along with their shifts to producing alternative fuel, Research and Development Institute (SARDI) in South Australia plans to extract alternative fuel from micro-algae. This project is a part of their one of a...