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Eco Factor: Solar-powered aircraft designed for round-the-world flight. After six years of designing Solar Impulse aircraft, officially known as HB-SIA, was powered up in Switzerland. The test was performed by test pilot Markus Scherdel who...

Eco Factor: Electronic Sound Synthesis could make electric cars more appealing. For those of you who don’t simply want to drive an electric vehicle since they’re silent, Lotus has teamed up with Harman Kardon to develop a new gadget dubbed ESS.

Eco Factor: Storing solar energy in the form of hydrogen for fuel cells. The current technology might have enabled us to install a solar plant right on our rooftops, but all that energy is of no use if there isn’t enough storage medium...

Eco Factor: Christmas tree with 16,000 bulbs to be powered by solar energy. We still have more than a month left before Christmas, but there are many who have already started preparing for the celebrations. Brisbane is one of the first to have...

Eco Factor: NASA converts unmanned airplanes into climate scouts. With an ability to stay in the air for more than a day and an operating range of 3400 miles, two Northrop Grumman RQ-4 UAVs have been handed over to NASA for a new assignment. NASA..

Eco Factor: Zero-emission vehicle designed to be powered by electricity. Designers have always worked hard to show us the world of the future as they envision it to be in their dreams. We all know that with fossil fuel sources depleting at the...

Eco Factor: New flower species absorbs nitrogen oxide and takes out heat from the atmosphere. Toyota is regularly being criticized by rivals, who claim that the company’s Prius isn’t as green as other vehicles once the car’s manufacturing...

Eco Factor: Mobile solar-powered unit. Created with state-of-the-art materials and technology, GreenTow trailers are a clean and an efficient way to provide mobile power. The mixed-use trailers carry solar panels that can easily be adjusted to...

Eco Factor: Renewable energy power plant stores sun’s energy in the form of molten salt. California-based SolarReserve is planning a new type of renewable energy power plant that will continue to generate electricity even after the sun goes...

Eco Factor: Revolutionary technology could lead to the development of hyper-flexible solar systems. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made a three-dimensional PV solar cell around an optical fiber that can lead to the...