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Eco Factor: Geothermal fluid to be pumped using supercritical CO2. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is funding nine trials that use supercritical CO2 – a pressurized form that is part gas and part liquid, to extract more geothermal energy. The.

Eco Factor: Bio-fuel made from CO2 using solar energy. While the race to develop bio-fuel in a cost-effective and sustainable way is heated up, a California-based startup, Joule Biotechnologies is trying to take the lead with a unique process that.

Eco Factor: Detecting the molecular model of cement, researchers at MIT try to design greener concrete. The dream for sky-touching structures wouldn't have come true without cement. However, the quest for taller structures also means a rise in...

Eco Factor: Newly discovered bowl-shaped molecule could refine carbon capture systems. Though the actual research being conducted by Maryland scientists wasn’t to find out ways to help the planet, the result did surprise one and all. J.A....

Eco Factor: Drones to be powered by solar cells embedded with pigment found in purple bacteria. The U.S. armed forces had recently escalated its efforts to go green with the use of trash-powered generators and solar arrays to power bases. Funded...

Eco Factor: Carbon-offsetting meter attaches to trees and eases carbon trading process. Nitipak Samsen, a graduate from the Royal College of Art, has designed an ingenious way to offset a client’s carbon emissions. The system dubbed ATREEM...

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: Latest carbon capture technique would allow scientists to slow down global warming. Research conducted by an international team of scientists, led by the University of Manchester, has shown that underground water has been able to...

Eco Factor: New CCS technology could make coal-fired power plants green. Be it the latest advances in solar technology or fuel cells, until we get an efficient and easily available source of green energy the human race will get powered-up by the...

Eco Factor: Atmospheric CO2 recycled into alternative hydrocarbon fuel. According to statistics, every 12 days the world consumes over a billion barrels of oil, which in turn release a trillion pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere. This CO2 results...