Reviving the Silk Road: Connecting China’s High Speed Rail to Europe
In a recent post we took a look at how China will spend $300 billion to expand its HSR lines across China to about 17,000 miles by 2020 thereby outspending the rest of the world…
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.
500 HP Dodge Tomahawk 0-60 in 2.5 and tops out at 420 MPH
Sensation seeking is a bona fide personality trait thought to have a strong genetic component. The Sensation-Seeking Scale measures a person’s readiness to take risks for the sake of experiencing stimulation. A look at recently…
Electromagnetic Harvester. Charging Batteries from Thin Air
Capacitive electromagnetic fields are created by a simple current flow in devices like photocopiers, printers, coffee makers, wireless devices , and electric substations. Most of these activities involve the transfer of information as their primary…
Could “Test Tube Meat” End World Hunger?
Scientists and engineers are beginning to grow meat in laboratories, not artificial meat, but meat that is indistinguishable from animal meat but without the animal. In vitro means “in a test tube” or a culture…
Robert Langer Profile. Engineering Synthetic Skin
I sat down with Dr. Robert Langer and a small group of journalists at MIT this week to discuss his lifetime work which includes 810 patents issued or pending, 24 companies that have received over…
Wind Turbines Snap in Half and Catch Fire – Dangers of Wind Turbines
There were roughly 225,000 wind turbines globally at the end of 2012 with a combined output of about 230,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity. With a 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), and rising spending expected…
Pack Your Bags, Biosphere 2 Laboratory a Step to Colonizing Mars
The estimated time for astronauts to travel 34 million miles from Earth to Mars is 6 to 8 months depending on the relative position of the two planets at the time of launch: Mars and…
Mind-Controlled Wheelchairs Going Farther Than Ever Before
The innovations we are seeing across the board in product design and development are leaving no stone unturned: wheelchairs are no exception. Researchers have developed a brain-powered chair, illuminated wheels, hubless wheels, wheelchairs that move…
UK’s $8.3 Billion Aircraft Carrier: Precision Engineering Re-energizing Economy
HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of Europe’s largest and most interesting manufacturing projects, has a price tag of $8.3 billion and is about 50% complete. When it is christened in 2017 the carrier will be as…
Concept eCycle: Aesthetics, Ergonomics and Efficiency
According to automotive and industrial designer Milos Jovanovic, a native of Serbia and winner of a “Sitting Green” award in design by Belgrade Design Week, the eCycle concept springs from the notion that existing electronic…
