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Eco Factor: Drag racing car emits water and oxygen. A chemical that is an active ingredient in most hair dyes is tested for feasibility in a drag racer with astonishing results. While hydrogen fuel cells are expensive and electric cars are slow,...

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: 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: Biofuel made from grass clippings and other organic waste. In Brazil, nine out of ten cars run on sugarcane ethanol and in the US corn-based ethanol is more of a supplement. The rise in the demand of bio-fuel has forced scientists to...

Eco Factor: Old bras to be turned into solid fuel. Presently the world is looking for all possible sources of fuel that can be used to power our urban lifestyles. While some researchers and manufacturers have laid their bets on renewable sources...

Eco Factor: Bioreactor generates biofuel from algae. Modern technology, no matter how advanced it might be, depends on energy and fuel for survival. The overdependence on technological innovations and the rapid decline in fossil fuel reserves has..

Eco Factor: Hydrogen for fuel can be extracted from water without any wastage. Of all the sources of green energy, hydrogen seems the most promising as it burns with no harmful emissions at all. Research has been going on for decades to find the...

Eco Factor: Low-cost way to convert sugarcane juice into useful fuel. Colorado-based Amyris Biotechnologies opened up a demonstration plant with a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons a year in Campinas, Brazil, to demonstrate large-scale...

Eco Factor: Urine broken down into hydrogen using electrolysis. With the dearth of low-emission fuels and the high cost of renewable energy generating system such as photovoltaic cells have tempted automobile manufacturers to look towards sources..

Eco Factor: USB drive gathers your driving performance and makes suggestions on how to make fuel last longer. In a world where automobile manufactures all over the world are promising hybrids and electric cars, Fiat is working on a technology that.