Frank Polifka's "Tornado in a Can"

[Acheyfeet]

Frank, you should be wearing some gloves.

[westkan]

In the NPR audio archive, I heard heard no moving parts mentioned, but an engine was started up when the invention was demonstrated to Matt Cavnar. What's up with that. No I'm not dissing grandpa.

[pocketjedi]

@westkan your question is a year old but it seems like no one has answered it. the engine appears to drive heated air. I listened to that too an it was what 650 to 700 degrees of heated air? so that's where the air come from but if we wanted to tap geothermal it would be a earth ran device with technically no moving parts, just earth. the power source(wind) goes to the device(which has no parts) via heated compressor I'm varying from what NPR audio described? hope that answers your question.

[brainsareus]

@pocketjedi i hate to think about this, but what if one sticks their arm up the hole at the bottom? what happens? 

[SquareElix]

who ever dont belive this go and learn who Viktor Schauberger was, even scientists today acknowledge they are having a hard time figuring out the dynamics of vortexes and its secrets, it seems somehow vortexes have the capacity to multiply force

[MrfixitRick]

Think of a hurricane...more energy than all of the US consumes in one year. A big tornado video I saw recently had a sheriff count 5 vehicles swirling around at once, a few hundred feet in the air and estimated them to be going 250 mph!

A properly designed man-made vortex can literally rip apart the very molecules of substances.

[SquareElix]

yup, affirmative  :]

here more on vortex technology

Spiral Vortex Technology

watch?v=l8xeAEL9OFc

[spacerconrad]

I'd have to see it work in person. This'd be so easy to fake for video... and it seems that the reduction of matter to fine dust would require quite a lot of energy.

Not nay-saying, but like they say in Missouri... "Show me"

[fookatfoo]

This is footage of the most world-changing tech to come along in decades. One of these things built to a huge scale could convert the material in landfills into a fine powder which could then be reprocessed into its component parts through the use of magnets, centrifuges and flotation tanks. No more human beings sorting through our crap at recycling plants. think of it.

[ligerbabe]

fu all this is my grandpa

[shpoffo]

ditto. Though I take it this implies he is shredding the can in that vortex system. Maybe it's a really low energy way to shred stuff.

[geekmorgan]

I'm waiting for the joke at the end.. it turns everything into gray dust?