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Eco Factor: One-piece solar mounting rack made from recycled materials. Sollega Inc has announced its new InstaRack™, the solar industry’s first fully assembled, one-piece mounting rack made from recycled materials. The patent-pending...

Eco Factor: Unique thin-film solar panels mounted on dual-axis trackers automatically align toward the sun. Researchers predict that every hour the sun radiates more free energy than the entire human population uses in a year. Still, with all that.

Eco Factor: Low-cost plastic stick-on solar cells for portable electronic devices and cars. Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed stick-on solar cells made from molded plastics, which according to the researchers can...

Eco Factor: Plastic material that could convert light to electricity could have a big impact on solar technology. Generating electricity from light isn’t anything new in the technology field. However, even after decades of research scientists...

Solar cars can indeed take up pretty strange shapes, but it is quite baffling when someone sees a solar car on road and reports it as a UFO. Marcelo da Luz is on an attempt to set the world distance record for a solar vehicle. He was chased down...

It is nice to see a firm help out other smaller communities go green. This really spreads the green message across to the denizens of the county. Novato-based SolarCraft continues to establish their position as Marin County's source for local solar...

This is neither confirmed news nor is it something that the organizers of the grueling race are planning for come the year 2015. But this very well could be the way Dakar Rally goes considering the shape which auto industry is taking and with growing...

There is often this wide misconception that everything that is filled with green goodness is a bit too expensive and that technology is not available for everyone. Cost is indeed a big hurdle in case of green products and technologies spreading their.

There is absolutely no doubt today about where the automobile industry is heading and it is surely taking a drive towards the greener pastures. With the growing environment concern and the growing crude oil prices, it seems inevitable and a...

I’m not so sure how people will take to the remark of ‘Arab World’ but since the team that built this solar car wishes to be known by that title, we are none to deny it to them. A team of engineering students and their professor have built what...