Tag - Energy Crisis
Eco Factor: World’s largest cruise ship designed to minimize waste and consume 25% less power.
After two and a half years of construction and environmental consideration, the world’s largest cruise ship commissioned by Royal Caribbean...
Eco Factor: Pilot projects to generate renewable energy from water.
Renewable energy, which is currently dominated by solar and wind farms, is churning out power that is expensive and highly dependent on climatic conditions. Two companies are...
Eco Factor: Asus N51V energy-saving laptop gets a Carbon Footprint Certificate.
Asus has announced that its N51V laptop is the world’s first notebook computer to receive both a Carbon Footprint Certificate and the Environmental Product...
Eco Factor: Mixed-use building harvests rainwater, stores solar energy and encourages people to recycle waste.
Eco-minded architect Juan Manuel Bustos has proposed the Greening Star mixed-use building that tries to solve all the three major issues.
Eco Factor: Nano-scale CO2-to-fuel reactor developed by Carbon Sciences.
The developers of the breakthrough technology that can solve the energy crisis by recycling CO2 from the atmosphere into gasoline and other portable fuels, Carbon Sciences,...
Eco Factor: Sea Snake to generate renewable electricity from sea waves.
Of all the potential sources of renewable energy sea waves seem the most promising. However, the high cost of the systems required to harness sea waves and convert them into..
Eco Factor: Piezoelectric devices embedded on highways to generate electricity from moving cars.
Ten months after a concept was developed at Innowattech, which could solve the global energy crisis, the first practical test of energy generating...
Eco Factor: Energy saving springs made from carbon nanotubes could save energy for a longer period of time without any loss of performance.
Researchers at MIT have suggested that carbon nanotubes, if used as springs could store energy in a more...
Eco Factor: World’s most efficient solar cell converts 43% incident sunlight into electricity.
Solar energy is one stream of technology which sees new records quite regularly. The enormous potential of the technology has kept researcher busy in..
Eco Factor: Process to clean wastewater and generate electricity using a modified microbial fuel cell.
The world today is facing two major issues, one is the unavailability of energy and the other is the decline in the sources of fresh water. New..
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