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.

Removing Billions Of Vehicle Miles With Cost-Effective Electric Monorails

The world’s oldest operating transportation monorail (“schwebebahan” in German) built in 1901 in Wuppertal, Germany, stretches 8.3 miles (13.3 km), has 20 stations, a top speed of 34 mph (56 kph) and still carries 82,000…

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The World’s Largest Floating Airport, Tokyo Bay’s Megafloat

Eighty percent of land in Japan is mountainous and plains between them are close to completely populated with residential and business buildings. Making room for huge projects like airports is becoming increasingly difficult. As a…

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Three Gorges Dam Utopian Vision More Like An Ecological Catastrophe

Yangtze River Has Been Crippled According to a Chinese proverb, “flowing water is not stagnant.” Unfortunately, the once mighty Yangtze River is now stagnant in key areas making it, in many places, a mud-clogged mess.…

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NetJets, Jet-Sharing When You Don’t Need A Plane All The Time (Video)

Fractional ownership, pioneered by Richard Santulli of NetJets, now owned by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, has 6,300 employees globally, primarily in the US, Europe and China. NetJets allows part-owners to purchase as little as 1/16th…

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Tidal Power Generation Picking Up, $500 Million Worldwide Market By 2015 (Video)

Interaction between the Earth and Moon, two huge masses that create gravitational forces, account for the Earth’s “tidal system” and is the basis for human attempts to harness the kinetic energy generated by tides and…

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World’s Largest Indoor Beach Resort Cost $100 Million

An hour south of Berlin, Germany sits the Tropical Islands Resort (TIR), an endeavor to capitalize on and profit from the country’s global preeminence as the leading vacation time consumer; German’s average six weeks and…

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Global Collaboration Key to Major Innovation

According to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2012 report (464 pgs.) by INSEAD, the key to sustainable growth and future prosperity depends on creation of innovative technology ecosystems country by country and linking them together to…

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Gamification Market to Reach $2.8 billon by 2016

All the World’s a . . . Game It has been suggested that US Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s “999 Plan” may have come from SimCity where it is a default formula for running a SimCity…

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Mars One Gets 80,000 Applications in Two Weeks, Can It Work?

There will be an attempt to reach Mars and colonize it over the next half century but “Mars One Project” (MOP) will not be leading the charge. MOP may create some buzz about a Mars…

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Now Is The Time For An Engineering Renaissance

When we look at the Renaissance of the 15th century, it’s printing press, parachute, mariners astrolabe, dry-docks improved shipbuilding, not to mention the democratization of knowledge and compare it to the pace of change today,…

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Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

Removing Billions Of Vehicle Miles With Cost-Effective Electric Monorails

The World’s Largest Floating Airport, Tokyo Bay’s Megafloat

Three Gorges Dam Utopian Vision More Like An Ecological Catastrophe

NetJets, Jet-Sharing When You Don’t Need A Plane All The Time (Video)

Tidal Power Generation Picking Up, $500 Million Worldwide Market By 2015 (Video)

World’s Largest Indoor Beach Resort Cost $100 Million

Global Collaboration Key to Major Innovation

Gamification Market to Reach $2.8 billon by 2016

Mars One Gets 80,000 Applications in Two Weeks, Can It Work?

Now Is The Time For An Engineering Renaissance

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