Look No Gears! Multi-Gear Vs. Fixed Wheel Bicycles
We won’t make you tell your age. But if you’ve been around or a while, you may remember a time when, in about 1968, you may have seen and even owned a fixed wheel or…
Author Archives: David Russell Schilling
About David Russell Schilling
David enjoys writing about high technology and its potential to make life better for all who inhabit planet earth.
80,000 Bottle Rockets Launch the Celebration of the Rocket War
The world is full of those who believe their fireworks are the best on the planet. Without exception, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and more recently a number of major cities in the Middle East, most notably…
New $101 Million Advanced Milk Processing Plant Already Bringing in Impressive Stats
Thirty years ago, a group of milk farmers formed an alliance to bring stability to their dairy businesses and to improve products so that sales could continue to grow and prices would provide a reasonable…
Concrete Domes “Pop Up” Easily with Novel Construction Method
Pick up a shell at the beach and note its dome-like structure. Hermit crabs understand this intuitively, crawling into larger versions as they grow. And 1900 years ago, the Romans built the Pantheon, the world’s…
Worldwide Water Shortage Spells Doom for Big Energy, Boon for Renewables
By 2020, 40% of the world, or nearly 3 billion people, will be struggling mightily with fresh water shortage issues. As IndustryTap reported in Population Growth Could Make Water More Precious Than Gold, our overcrowded…
Will Hydrogen-Powered Cars Change the World or are the Promises a Bunch of Hot Air?
Searching for an Alternative to Fossil Fuel-Powered Vehicles Hydrogen-powered cars use hydrogen as fuel to produce electric energy; 90% of this energy is converted to electric energy to power the vehicle, making hydrogen significantly more…
Keep Your Clothes On! Virtual Dressing Rooms Reinvent the Shopping Experience.
Who likes trying on clothes at the store? Between the wall of mirrors with their unflattering angles and the fluorescent lighting that makes you look ghostly, dressing rooms are like torture chambers, only smaller and…
World’s First Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) Could Shake Up Gas and EV Markets
The Intrigue and Excitement of a Formula One Race The writing has been on the wall for a while now: electric vehicles could completely overtake the gas propelled vehicle market, relegating it to a distant…
“Idea Factories” & STEM Students: A Recipe For High Performance Industries & High Wage Jobs
Closing the Skills Gap in the United States According to The National Institutes of Health, “stem cells” start out “unspecialized” and are thus capable of becoming specialized through a process of differentiation controlled by a…
50 Do-It-Yourself Open Source & Sustainable Industrial & Farming Machines
Industrial Productivity on a Small Scale Lets face it. Many people on the planet don’t have access to tools they need to build and live sustainable lives. But necessity is the mother of invention and…
