Siemens Shutters “Solar Power Tower” Business
Ever since the first inkling of a thought by an oil or natural gas industry executive that one day the world might run out of fossil fuel-based resources, he and his research team have been…
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.
You’re Hired! Trump’s 62-Story Dubai Hotel Could Be Revived with New VP
IndustryTap recently wrote about $616 billion Millennium Tower Boston, a project that lay inert from 2006 to 2013, victim to the “Global Economic Crisis” or “Global Credit Crunch.” The project finally became an active worksite when…
Where is the World’s Most Connected and Networked Society?
With its church steeples and castle walls, Tallinn, Estonia, seems like a quiet backwater well outside the mainstream of modern society. You would never guess it’s involved in creating and using cutting-edge technology or integrating…
$1.9 Billion Contract Depends on NASA Demo Mission’s Success
Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Virginia, is responsible for the world’s first privately developed space launch vehicle, Pegasus. It’s an air launched rocket first tested in 1990. Orbital also developed the Taurus rocket for small &…
Corporate Espionage Has Come of Age
As most know, the Internet was originally devised as a military technology that would allow decentralized communication in the wake of a nuclear war. After the Internet was created, James Bond-like spies around the world…
Building’s Facade Covered in Thousands of Wind Turbines
Decode Urbanism Office, a company based in Beijing, has designed a 1,150 foot (350m) skyscraper to be located in Taichung City, Taiwan, and house the city’s Department of Urban Development, commercial concerns, museums, retail areas…
Would You Pay $100K to Know What Time It Is?
The simple act of telling time has come a long way since the sundial. Now, watches are not only ways to know what time it is, they’re statements, almost works of art. One company’s work…
The Big Picture Breakdown Of Greenhouse Gases
IndustryTap covered “300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds” which shows the origin and growth of greenhouse gases since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 17th century; CO2 is measured in Parts…
Is the $670 Million USS Freedom a Sinking Ship?
At $670.4 million, one would think Lockheed Martin would deliver a gem. But the USS Freedom has been plagued by design flaws, failed equipment, hull cracks and engine-related failures. The U.S. Navy released an inspection…
Bluer Skies Ahead with Company’s CO2 Emission Reduction
“Trickle Down” Approach to Meeting Global Emissions Targets IndustryTap has written about the IEA’s call for $33 trillion in spending between now and 2035 as the price of meeting the world’s emissions targets. And we have…
