If you’re curious to know what a garage-scale model of a home-made tornado looks like, click here. It at least gives you the idea of how such a thing is formed using basic convection principles. This, of course, relates to my earlier post on tornado power.
Another addition: Steven Levitt, author of the best-selling book Freakonomics, has written a post about my tornado story on his New York Times blog. Quite a few interesting, and critical, comments.
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August 14th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
please tell me we are not pinning our hopes of renewable energy to some plywood and steam from a kettle that’s been made to swirl slightly?
…my portable humidifier already does that!
August 20th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
I think this tornado tech is pretty cool. Hope someone ponies up the needed capital to get a decent sized demo up and running.