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.

The Connected Car: 45 Billion Hours A Year Spent On The Road In The USA Alone

Americans spend 45 billion hours a year in their automobiles and recent advances in technology, especially the smart phone, are leading manufacturers to develop new entertainment systems and new profit centers. Big Auto Wants a…

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Nanowires At 1/10000 The Size Of Human Hair Break Solar Cell Efficiency Limits

Building Solar Cells Nanowire By Nanowire The solar cell efficiency limit, known as the “Shockley Queisser Limit” (SQL) has held for many years. But recent research using nanowires seems to show that scientists will soon…

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Using Residual Nerve Reinnervation To Control Prosthetic Limbs

New Hope For Amputees Dr. Todd Kuiken of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has developed a new surgical procedure that uses residual nerve signals to control a prosthetic limb. Called Targested Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) surgeons…

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78 Killed, 180 Injured As Spain Train Derails At 118 MPH

The world is coming to grips with the horror of the third major train derailment in the past month, this one a dramatic train crash in Santiago de Compostela Spain that killed at least 78…

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$33 Trillion Needed To Meet Emission Targets by 2035

Some might call the idea of a profitable $33 trillion (that’s $33,000,000,000,000) investment plan to fix the planets woes “woolgathering” or “oneirism”; if nothing else it dramatizes and presages the magnitude of the task. But…

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High Octane Attempt To Birth A Baby Sun

It may sound like an automobile factory but the National Ignition Facility (NIF), finished in 2009, is the world’s largest laser with 192 intense laser beams delivering 60 times more energy than any previous system;…

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World’s Largest 300-Step Rube Goldberg Machine Designed At Purdue University

The World’s Largest “Rube Goldberg” Machine was recently designed and built at Purdue University but what is a Rube Goldberg machine? The Rube Goldberg Institute is a clearinghouse for information on the history of the…

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Chennai, India Quickly Becoming The World’s Top Automobile Producer

The automobile industry in the United States has found it a “difficult road to drive” in recent decades as it has sought to recover from the onslaught of clearly superior foreign automobiles. From the 1970s…

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Microdrones Are Helping Us See The World Like Never Before

Remote control mini drones or micro drones are now being used for a plethora of important applications. These include aerial mapping services, search and rescue, inspection services like power line monitoring, police security, aerial surveillance,…

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Nanoscale 3D Printers Able To Print Thinner Than A Hair

Martin Hermatswchweiler of Nanoscribe GmbH believes nanoscale printing, when commercialized, will supplant other forms of small scale manufacture and lead to the revitalization of industries worldwide. Much progress is being made developing nanoscale 3-D printers…

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Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

Nanowires At 1/10000 The Size Of Human Hair Break Solar Cell Efficiency Limits

Using Residual Nerve Reinnervation To Control Prosthetic Limbs

78 Killed, 180 Injured As Spain Train Derails At 118 MPH

$33 Trillion Needed To Meet Emission Targets by 2035

High Octane Attempt To Birth A Baby Sun

World’s Largest 300-Step Rube Goldberg Machine Designed At Purdue University

Chennai, India Quickly Becoming The World’s Top Automobile Producer

Microdrones Are Helping Us See The World Like Never Before

Nanoscale 3D Printers Able To Print Thinner Than A Hair

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