I just wanted to say the Ned Kahn Tornado, if that can be controlled and harnessed to generate enough power to support a household, you could build homes in the remotest of places and buy one of these generators to power it. We could have one in our backyard or basement and not need to pay the city for electricity. If it incorperates solar power/heat that would be efficient.

Technology is astounding and the future is a playground for our imagination.

What concerns me most is that humans always think they can create what only Mother Nature should and as Murphy’s law dictates, there are currently a team of researchers (VORTEX2) in tornado alley, chasing nothing but clear skies and good weather, during what is nearing to be the height of the ‘chase season’. With this in mind I can only think that strange things happen when you least expect them to – not a reassuring concept when toying with a beast . . . and the notion that these machines may ‘assist in the fight against global warming’, I find truely preposterous! Ok, so the twister may assist in getting the heat from the earth to high into the atmosphere, something the earth apparently ’struggles’ to do, due to the greenhouse effect, but who has had the idea to research what may happen in the atmosphere,when this sudden influx of concentrated hot air, from possibly tens or hundreds of these tornadoes, is pumped up? I cannot see any way that there will not be some kind of mammoth consequence by doing this! And don’t get me started on control, and I quoe: ‘Dampers on the air-intake ducts could control the air flow into the vortex building, acting like a throttle that can keep the vortex from twisting out of control.’ If that thing becomes self sustaining (admittedly, it would theoretically require this contant feed of hot air controlled by which ever system/computer human see fit for the purpose) and tears it’s way though the building, who will be to blame? What if there is a death? It kind of (wierdly) reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer time travels with his ‘posessed toaster’ and continually changes the course of history. I can’t help thinking that factors such as the gulf stream and other naturally occurring phenomenon should not be interrupted or disturbed by man. Whatever the consequences, the simple fact remains that we need to improve technology to cater for our power hungry needs, whilst becoming ever cleaner. All we can do is watch this space and wait until a prototype is built (hopefully on a small scale at first) and results can be recorded. Although the idea IS wacky, if all is done to control the vortex properly, there may be hundreds of these things all over the world – I’m visulising ‘Twister Farms’! Imaging what that would look like! Good luck to AVEtec and Michaud; I hope you get the funding to research this to it’s fullest potential.

if it works, Michael will become the saviour of us all..

someone’s gotta allow nature its relief..

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D~W