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Eco Factor: Biofuel to be made from cattails. Cattails in beds of wastewater treatment facilities can be used to improve the quality of wastewater, produce abundant starches and according to a new research can be used to produce sustainable...

Eco Factor: Sustainable housing project will be the largest in the UK. Aspiring to be the largest eco-village in the United Kingdom, the Hanham Hall Development will consist of over 190 homes built to house people with a green mind. The...

Eco Factor: Bacteria can produce biofuel from non-food biomass. New research could lead to the end of the fuel versus food controversy regarding biofuels. Scientists are presently experimenting with bacteria called “Anaerocellum” that is said..

Eco Factor: Renewable energy generating architecture produces hydrogen for electricity. Students at the University of Waterloo have won this year’s Hydrogen Student Design Award hosted by Hydrogen Education Foundation with a building concept...

EcoFactor: Alternative energy obtained from landfills. Anybody with the slightest amount of common sense would know that landfills aren’t entirely bad as people consider them to be. They mostly are grounds with a high potential for useful...

Researchers at the University of Georgia have a developed a technology that can help in producing great amounts of ethanol from biomass such as grass, non-food crops and yard waste. Most of the gas, which is burnt, can be actually used to produce...

A group of artists is on the brink of sculpturing a 120-feet long slug-like structure that'll convert trash into fuel through gasification. The project Mechabolic - by description itself is mammoth and ambitious, it's just big enough for any...

At the first glance, I possibly couldn't figure, what on earth this was - whether a monster truck to fascinate my kid back home or a crane to pick his other goodies. Though, when I read on through a post on Yankodesign, I realized this was beyond...

A new method has been developed that can produce enough fuel to power all cars in America, according to U.S. scientists. The method is capable of fueling the needs of other transport forms as well. It recycles all the carbon dioxide (CO2) usually..

The state of New York will soon build an ethanol production plant near Rochester that will use paper sludge, wood chips and other agricultural waste as its raw material. Mascoma's 15,000-square-foot, $14.8 million facility is scheduled to open toward.