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Eco Factor: Lithium-ion batteries for automobile applications from Hitachi.
Lithium-Air batteries promise a 10X increase in storage capacity in lab tests, however, their practical use is a couple of decades away and till then car manufacturers...
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The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size...
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The Sakarya University Advanced Technologies Implementation Group (SAITEM) sets a record in fuel efficiency. Having been adjudged the third best fuel-efficient car in...
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Eco Factor: Zero-emission car running on hydrogen gets 568km per liter of hydrogen.
Soaring fuel prices and the rise in global warming have always made inventors put...
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Brad Pitt surely deserves to be there in the green celebs’ list. Well, you may or may not agree to it. Still his foundation, Make It Right, makes him proud in...
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Cheap Chic Weddings.com, is a wedding website that helps you plan a beautiful and elegant wedding without spending your life savings on your big day. The contest called...
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Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Queensland, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting...
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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...
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The Slovenian hydro pumped storage power plant has given all the bicyclists a reason to smile. Built with an innovative approach, it provides riders with an open plain...
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The UK is serious about cutting down on its CO2 emissions and reducing the ever-increasing noise pollution. As it’s quite imperative to monitor the air quality before...
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Eco Factor: Nitrogen-fueled fireworks produce less smoke and lesser toxins.
Be it Diwali in India or the Fourth of July celebrations in U.S., people love to watch...
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A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong...
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InterHome, a new home that is capable of learning and adapting to its residents and take critical actions. In case the doors are left unlocked or burglers intrude, you...
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SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology) does a great job in making solar panels to flutter and gleam while lending a perfect grace to your abode. The siblings,...
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Motorola, one of the world leaders in the development and deployment of TETRA communication solutions, has been commissioned by Sine Network to install a total of 40...
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One of the world’s best hybrid cars, Toyota’s Prius thinks ahead of the times. Even before hitting the market, Toyota has plans to keep it fully recyclable when it...
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Eco Factor: Zero-emission lawnmower is powered by electricity.
Gone are the days when mowing your lawn in the morning could have triggered a neighborhood brawl....
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The architects at Gray Organschi Architecture have designed a simple but innovative structure from raw materials giving a completely new meaning to creativity. This...
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Eco Factor: Eco artist turns plastic trash into functional jewelry.
What relevance do trashed plastic bottles and aluminum cans hold for normal party animals? I guess...
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Zambian green trendsetter Benjamin Banda now earns a sustainable living out of his creative thinking. He set up a self-sustaining business of constructing bikes from...
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Eco Factor: Highly efficient solar cells are tailored to suit their location.
UK-based Quantasol has achieved a world record for the most efficient gallium arsenide...
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Eco Factor: Energy-efficient batteries by Hitachi for electric and hybrid cars.
Hitachi claims to have developed a new lithium-ion battery that tops its previous...
made popular Apr 29 2009
Scientists at MIT have displayed that genetically engineered viruses could work as the cathode and the anode of lithium ion batteries. Success in creating the anode...
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Eco Factor: Batteries made from organic materials.
Researchers at MIT have developed a new technique by which lithium-ion batteries could be made green, without...
made popular Apr 3 2009
The Toasty Charger is a concept design from Hyun-A Ko which is meant to provide a little bit of breakfast style to the usually mundane task of re-powering your...
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Eco Factor: Solar-powered street lights from Sanyo.
Sanyo has launched solar-powered streetlights at the Eco-Products 2008 fair at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan. The...
made popular Dec 19 2008
Eco Factor: Replacing graphite anode with nano-silicon enhances current storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
The only factor preventing global adoption of...
made popular Nov 26 2008
A while back, we heard that Lithium deposits are running short and may run out by 2015. Now, a team of South Korean researchers, led by professor Cho Jaephil, claims a...
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Eco Factor: Rapid-charging battery from Toshiba.
Toshiba has announced the development of a new kind of lithium-ion battery that needs just 5 minutes of charge time...
made popular Nov 25 2008
While we wait for cars running on alternative fuels, and battery packs providing juice for the motors, one simple fact appears to have been ignored – availability of...
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Toyota’s plans to run a Prius on Lithium-ion batteries have hit a roadblock. Launch of the new Toyota Prius that was to run on Lithium-ion batteries has been...
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General Motors is tagging up with A 123 System Inc., one of the worlds leading suppliers of lithium ion battery, to develop cells with A123 system’s nanophosphate...
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The race to be the first automaker to launch a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) seems to be getting hot with every passing day. A couple of months ago, we had...
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We have already briefly discussed on the subject of batteries and more specifically, Lithium-Ion batteries and I have received a question on the subject last time I...
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I have always been someone who believed that plastic and batteries are the most poisonous of all waste. Not just because they harm the planet, but they are used in such...
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In a path breaking research, some scientists, with the help of a new technology, have successful augmented the operating life of lithium ion batteries 10 folds. In...
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Volkswagen Up! in Germany and Space Up! in Tokyo have been the two eco-friendly car of the same species. Whats next in the series? Well, it’s the Space Up! blue....
made popular Nov 17 2007
If our machines continue to consume gasoline at the same pace we are using it today, then all the motorbike lovers might soon see a day without the sweet Vroom sound of...
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Cars in the future may be powered by electricity, biofuel or even nuclear reactions! But cars powered by gasoline are definitely on their way out. This organic liquid...
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Japanese auto giant Toyota Motors’ decision to say no to using lithium-ion technology based batteries comes as a surprise to both consumers and the battery...
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