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.

Brits’ Burn Garbage to Produce “Biogas” Jet Engine Fuel

In what might have once been a “royal scandal”, British Airways is getting ready to burn garbage to produce fuel to power its modern jets. It has been called garbage power, biogas, landfill, gasification, feedstock…

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See the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s 42,000 Hours of Construction in 4 Minutes

The Most Complex Engineering Project in California History The new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, built at a cost of $7 billion, has two segments and was opened to traffic in September 2013. The first runs between…

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Techno-Archaeologists to Reboot 17-Year-Old “Dead” International Cometary Explorer (ICE)

A Space Age Relic Back in Play NASA’s current modus operandi (MO) is to do more with less. With a shrinking budget and a full docket, NASA is working to help outsiders, including a former…

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Omnidirectional Mobile Manipulation Platforms? Ask Mr. Robot.

Coolest Robot in the World Mr. Robot of “World of Warcraft” fame not only likes playing games, but likes helping humans play games better. Now Mr. Robot is helping manufacturers play better too with mobile…

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Can Your Job Be Done By Robots? This Data Is Scary BUT Intriguing!

Predictions are that by 2049, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species. If this is true, and technological innovation continues to occur at the current pace in hardware, sensors…

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Sailing Drones Ready to Save the World’s Oceans

The world has come to know drones as aerial vehicles operated remotely, sometimes from thousands of miles away. Now various types of above and below water drones are in use or in development, including the Saildrone,…

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These Lung-Inspired Solar Panels Clean Themselves

According to the US Department of Energy (DOE), energy from the sun hitting the earth in just one hour could power the planet for an entire year. Part of the puzzle of exploiting this resource…

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Are Mass Surveillance Systems the New Normal?

George Orwell, who wrote the novel “1984”, was prescient in imagining many things, including two-way “telescreens” in people’s homes through which the authorities could literally “keep an eye on them,” an activity the NSA has…

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Finally Launches, Dragon Successfully Docks with ISS

After months of technical setbacks, the unmanned Falcon 9 Space X Rocket, with its Dragon Cargo Ship, blasted off from Cape Canaveral Friday. The mission delivered 2.5 tons of supplies to the International Space Station…

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Google Tries to Uplift the World with Internet-Filled Balloons

Fantasy Becoming a Reality As the massive search for missing Malaysian Flight 370 shows, the world is still a very big place. The world is so big, in fact, that most people don’t realize that…

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Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

Brits’ Burn Garbage to Produce “Biogas” Jet Engine Fuel

See the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s 42,000 Hours of Construction in 4 Minutes

Techno-Archaeologists to Reboot 17-Year-Old “Dead” International Cometary Explorer (ICE)

Omnidirectional Mobile Manipulation Platforms? Ask Mr. Robot.

Can Your Job Be Done By Robots? This Data Is Scary BUT Intriguing!

Sailing Drones Ready to Save the World’s Oceans

These Lung-Inspired Solar Panels Clean Themselves

Are Mass Surveillance Systems the New Normal?

SpaceX Falcon 9 Finally Launches, Dragon Successfully Docks with ISS

Google Tries to Uplift the World with Internet-Filled Balloons

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