Can Humans Survive to 2100?
A growing number of scientists, mathematicians and philosophers are concerned humanity may be on the verge of omnicide: that is, human extinction as a result of human actions. One chief factor involved in overcoming this…
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.
13 Ton MRI Machine Has A Magnetic Field 30,000 Times Stronger Than Earth’s
Like a championship racehorse being put out to pasture to enjoy life a little an old MRI machine is being prepared to answer some of the most profound questions about the universe. TransHELIOS Project In…
US Military To Fund Development Of Vehicle-Mounted, Drone-Shooting Lasers
Scientists and engineers have been finding ways to trap light and lasers and direct them for years using a variety of methods such as mirrors, reflective surfaces and high-tech materials like photonic crystals. The “Ground-Based…
Velodrome, The High-End Bike Track Coming To America
After the recent “defrocking” of Lance Armstrong we learned Americans still have a long way to go to earn international respect in competitive cycling. Europeans continue to dominate international cycling rankings and along with Asians…
Police Supercars Changing Balance of Power Around The World
Police Adopting “First Rate” Conveyance: Will It Make A Difference? Police car aficionados’ are enjoying life recently. Historically police vehicles have been somewhat ineffectual, dull, even jalopy-like and a hindrance to police unable to keep…
Toyota Donating Engineers Instead Of Money, Reducing Wait Times By 80%
In the United States major corporations give large amounts of money to nonprofit organizations each year. In a recent year Walmart gave $342 million in cash and $616 million in products, Goldman Sachs Group, $337…
Engineers Making Earthquake Resistant Buildings & Bridges
Earthquake resistant buildings are somewhat like unicorns or the Holy Grail: figments of the imagination for sure, but unlikely to ever be discovered in reality. Earthquake proof buildings are not necessarily impossible, but their expense…
Proven UK Oil Reserves Can Still Produce 30 Billion Barrels
Proven Oil Reserves Looking Good And On The Upswing The UK has produced 37 billion barrels of oil since the first North Sea oil boom 35 years ago and not too long ago, the British…
Solar Panels Could Destroy US Utilities According to US Utilities
It is beginning to look as though the solar energy industry could deal a big blow to entrenched, mammoth, regulated monopolies, otherwise known as US power utilities, over the coming decades. Large US utilities have…
US Spending $75 Billion A Year Fighting Cyber Threats And Attacks
Traditional Methods Prove Wanting Traditional methods of securing computers and networks relied on firewalls, IPS/IDS, antivirus and others but taken together provide only moderate protection at best. US companies and the government have approached the…
