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Eco Factor: Wind farm with an installed capacity of 140.7MW. New South Wales has finally got its biggest wind farm, the Capital Wind Farm that can generate renewable energy to power over 60,000 homes. The wind farm is equipped with 67 Suzlon S88...

Eco Factor: Energy absorbing system harnesses noise for clean electricity. For most the noise on the streets is annoying, but for industrial designers Jihoon Kim, Boyeon Kim, Myung-Suk Kim and Da-Woon Chun it is a chance to generate renewable...

Eco Factor: PV power plant capable of powering over 3 million Chinese homes being developed. China will soon possess the world’s largest photovoltaic power plant, which will have the capacity to power up to 3 million Chinese homes with a...

Eco Factor: New drill to lower cost of geothermal energy. Researchers believe that if harnessed efficiently, the energy stored deep under the surface of the earth can meet the demand of energy thousands of times over and all that energy can be...

Eco Factor: Supermarket checkout to be powered by the energy created by shoppers’ cars. If you’re a regular consumer of goods purchased from Sainsbury's in Gloucester you would soon be helping the supermarket power itself with clean and...

Eco Factor: Concept charger harnesses kinetic energy for electricity. With billions of people in developing and under-developed nations still in need of a few watts to illuminate their homes, designers all over the world have started developing...

Eco Factor: Tidal energy generating systems to provide electricity to the UK. Researchers at the University of Liverpool, working along with Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, have claimed that building huge barrages in the North West could...

Eco Factor: Five-point tidal energy scheme to provide green electricity. The British government has shortlisted five ingenious solutions to provide green electricity to about 5% of urban homes in the UK. The £8billion project comprises five...

With the world already facing a dearth of energy and fossil fuels, environmentalists are in an effort to devise new sources of power that not only give us an alternate fuel source but do that without heating our planet. With every passing year these..

While the iPhone was not developed to be ecofriendly and sustainable, there were many who used their skills and their creative minds to develop products and applications that tried to better its green credentials. The way some individuals and...