Eco Factor: Self-reliant future cities with organic food production.

HP Skyline 2020, the online design competition asked students and professionals to collaborate and elucidate their visions and designs that would change the skyline thereby transforming the city itself has recently announced its winners. Encouraging designers to come up with fresh visual imaginations for the skyline discarding preconceived notions, competition saw over 300 entries giving a tough competition to one another. The National Winner of the competition Anto Gloren and Sayali Athale from Pune, India visualized socially connected, self-reliant future cities.

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City and the Skyline is an ecologically sustainable visual delight

Eco Factor: Stone-walled house with mesmerizing sea view.

Designed by Greek firm Deca Architecture, the “Aloni” is a house designed as a dual response to the particular topography of the site and to the rural domestication techniques that in the past shaped the raw Cycladic Island landscape. Situated on the exotic Antiparos Island of Greek, this stunning home appears like it’s naturally camouflaged in its environment.

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Aloni: Stunning stone house naturally camouflaged with the environment

Eco Factor: Prefab classroom conserves, collects and generates natural resources.

Designed by award-winning design firm Anderson Anderson Architecture, the “Energy Neutral Portable Classroom” aims to provide an optimized educational environment for students and teachers, while keeping sustainability principals in mind. It collects, generates and conserves natural resources, including electrical energy, daylight, wind energy, and rainwater. The prefabricated building includes a steel frame and steel and rigid foam sandwich panel floor and roof system that maximize insulation and heat reflection.

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Energy neutral portable classroom offers healthy educational environment

Eco Factor: Fuel stations to have system that converts water to hydrogen using solar energy.

Italian company Acta has recently signed a framework agreement with filling station forecourt equipment installation company Girelli Bruni to be its exclusive supplier of photovoltaic panels. The clean energy company has successfully developed a commercial system that converts water to hydrogen at a fueling station using solar energy. The duo is seeing their partnership as a boon for the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle market.

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Acta and Girelli Bruni to bring solar hydrogen filling stations to Italy

Eco Factor: Contemporary home featuring passive energy concept.

Designed by Najjar-Najjar Architects, Villa A is a beautifully designed house above a slope of the Poestling Berg that comes jam-packed with over-the-top amenities. It is mostly covered with large glass panels, so that visitors get to enjoy the beautiful panoramic views of the city from almost every room. The large scale glazing and the sliding elements blurs the indoor area and outdoor space.

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Villa A amalgamates breathtaking panorama with sustainability

Eco Factor: Zero-emission unmanned aircraft powered by a hydrogen/electric hybrid engine.

AeroVironment has announced that the company’s first aircraft developed under the Global Observer Joint Capability Technology Demonstration program has successfully completed its first flight. The aircraft took from the Edwards Air Force Base Station and climbed to an altitude of 4000 feet where it performed a series of maneuvers before landing one hour later.

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AeroVironment’s Global Observer hybrid UAV makes first flight

Eco Factor: Electric-powered vehicle offers a zero emission ride.

The Fraunhofer System Research envisions the future as transport without emitting those dreadful fumes and carbon into our atmosphere. Working on a large-scale project to come up with the public transport of tomorrow, the Fraunhofer research team has developed something it calls the “AutoTram”. Presently under research, the vehicle is designed to be as a tram and as flexible as a bus.

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AutoTram: Electric tram plus bus for public transport of tomorrow

Eco Factor: World’s largest tidal turbine on Scottish coast to generate 1MW electricity.

Giving a massive push to alternate energy resources world’s largest tidal turbine is all set to be revealed later this summer. Dubbed as ‘Atlantis Resources AK1000’ the turbine will be installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland. Continue Reading »
World’s largest tidal turbine comes of Scotland’s coast

Eco Factor: Polymer film allows solar panels to generate more energy.

Aiming to better the efficiency of solar panels, a small startup company called Genie Lens Technologies has developed a polymer film that can be attached to the surface of solar panels to better their efficiency. The company claims that the efficiency can be boosted by 10 percent by just applying a transparent sticker to the front.

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Genie Lens Technologies’ polymer film boosts PV efficiency by 10 percent

Eco Factor: Concept racing motorcycle powered by electric motors.

The Carrera Raptor RS by auto designer Adrian Carrera is a zero-emission racing motorcycle that gets powered by electric motors placed inside each wheel. Each of the visible rims in both the wheels has a static shape and holds an internal rim, which rotates along with the tire and the brake disk.

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Carrera Raptor RS concept racing motorcycle is silent and clean