Ecofriend

Eco Factor: Solar energy harnessing fiber could turn clothes into renewable energy generators. Are you tired of the low battery signals from your cellphone and your iPod? Konarka, the number one solar material maker from the US, is here with a...

Eco Factor: Roll-up solar charger for portable electronic gadgets. Sprint made news yesterday when the cellphone company announced the launch of new ecofriendly solar chargers for mobile devices, which could prove beneficial for campers, and now...

Eco Factor: Transparent solar modules for building-integrated photovoltaic systems. Massachusetts-based Konarka Technologies Inc. has announced that the company has developed transparent solar cells, which would make BIPV (Building-integrated...

Eco Factor: State of the art printer capable of producing flexible solar modules that can generate over a gigawatt per year. Photovoltaic cells printed onto a flexible plastic surface? Reads more like a mad scientist’s dream, right? But it’s...