Ecofriend

Eco Factor: Prototype house generates renewable electricity and reuses gray water. Broadway Malyan has designed a prototype sustainable dwelling for Sime Darby Property of Malaysia that will be used as an example of affordable green dwellings for.

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: Bridge designed to harness wind energy from the movement of cars passing under it. Designers Tiago Barros and Jorge Pereira have come up with a bridge design that will be used by bikers and pedestrians as a safe way to cross the road...

Eco Factor: Carbon neutral housing project runs on solar energy. This era belongs to architecture, and we’ve seen some really ingenious ways architecture can go green. Here is another similar plan by architect Carl Burdick. The architect has...

Eco Factor: Underwater turbines could generate 10TWh of energy annually. Of all the forms of renewable energy, wave power seems the most complex, but if harnessed it could end the global dependence on fossil fuels for power. A spin-off from the...

Eco Factor: Concept traffic light powered by solar energy. We’ve seen solar panels being stuffed into all kinds of gadgets including cellphones and MP3 players. Here is a more practical use of solar energy by designers Cheng-Tsung Feng,...

Eco Factor: Conceptual self-sufficient home made from recycled and sustainable materials. The Urban Bamboo Utopia (UBU) by Hungarian designer Dvorcsák Szabolcs is designed to reevaluate the relationship between humankind and the planet. The...

Eco Factor: Small gas-powered electricity plants to move Germany away from nuclear power. Instead of developing the next-gen renewable energy power plants, German energy company Lichtblick has teamed up with Volkswagen on a massive project that...

Eco Factor: Lawn equipment designed to be charged by solar energy. While most of us live a life on gadgets that others have invented for us to use, there are some who do their bit for the environment and also show others a green way that should be.

Eco Factor: Solar panels capable of harvesting artificial light developed by New Energy Technologies. Installing rooftop solar panels to make a single home go off-grid is easy. However, using the same technique in skyscrapers isn’t feasible...