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 Lightest Electric Vehicle Ever Made

Boosted Boards is re-imagining the long skateboard as an electric powered portable vehicle that will revolutionize the way people travel when commuting to work, sightseeing, having fun, or traveling short to medium range distances. According to the…

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Panama Canal Expansion Impacts Worldwide Shipping

The Panama Canal Authority began the process of expanding the nearly century old Panama Canal in 2008 through a $5.52 billion project scheduled for completion in 2015. The expansion program includes four major components: “New-Panamax”…

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Nuclear Waste Can Power the World for 72 Years

It’s simple. Take all the nuclear waste in the world, currently 270,000 metric tons, equivalent to the weight of the same number of African elephants, put it into WAMSR (Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor), power…

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Windstalks, Land Art Generating Power While Looking Good

Engineers and designers often look to nature for ideas on how to solve technical issues. There is a caveat: over design in nature often leads to extinction and over design in engineering can lead to the same outcome. The…

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The Most Beautiful Bridge in the World, Millau Viaduct

The Millau Viaduct was born out of a growing tangle of traffic on the route from Paris to Spain. The worst area was the pass through the Tarn River gorge near the town of Millau.…

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Largest US Public Works Project Costs $14.7 Billion, 5.6 Times Over Budget

The Big Dig, the largest public works project in US history, required $110,000,000 a month at its peak and poured 3.7 million cubic yards of concrete, nearly enough to build a sidewalk three feet wide…

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Sinking Cities, Rising Waters, The Solution is Biblical

The recent flooding that inundated New York City and left a cleanup and reconstruction bill of $65 billion has politicians and city planners scratching their heads and looking far and wide for creative and dependable…

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Poisoned Airport Cost $35 Million to Clean Up

With 30 million passengers traveling through Hong Kong’s 50 year old and crumbling Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong had a big problem. They needed a new airport but land in Hong Kong was scarce. The…

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Japan building a “mega solar” power and wind energy plant

In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant in 2011, arguably the worst nuclear power accident in history, the Japanese government has decided to phase out nuclear power…

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Titan supercomputer debuts for open scientific research

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is home to Titan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science with a theoretical peak performance exceeding 20 petaflops (quadrillion calculations per second). That kind of computational capability,…

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Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

The Lightest Electric Vehicle Ever Made

Panama Canal Expansion Impacts Worldwide Shipping

Nuclear Waste Can Power the World for 72 Years

Windstalks, Land Art Generating Power While Looking Good

The Most Beautiful Bridge in the World, Millau Viaduct

Largest US Public Works Project Costs $14.7 Billion, 5.6 Times Over Budget

Sinking Cities, Rising Waters, The Solution is Biblical

Poisoned Airport Cost $35 Million to Clean Up

Japan building a “mega solar” power and wind energy plant

Titan supercomputer debuts for open scientific research

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