Electric Airplanes for Short Flights in America?
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Unlike in Europe, Japan or China, in America passenger railways have been...
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Water Used in Hydraulic Fracturing is Now Recycled
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is the phenomenal technological innovation that unleashed...
Desalination Technologies are Getting Better and Cheaper
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – There is a major freshwater crisis affecting many regions of our planet....
America Needs Talented Immigrants
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – It is a well-known cliché to affirm that America is “a country...
China Beats America in STEM Education
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Here is the hard truth. China is massively ahead of the U.S....
U.S. Venture Capital is Now in the High-Tech Weapons Business
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – The Wall Street Journal recently featured Anduril, a defense start-up company and its...
South Africa’s Solar Boom
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – The African National Congress, South Africa’s governing party since 1994, is a...
US Nuclear Power Future: Small Reactors
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Could it be that the now moribund U.S. civil nuclear power sector...
The Vertical Urban Farming Revolution
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Soon enough the lettuce or kale that you buy at your favorite...
Uber Driverless EVs: The Urban Transportation Revolution
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – The promise of electric vehicles, EVs, is that they will do away...