All of my life, I've dreamed of owning a pet Tornado. Now an engineer from Canada may have found a way to capture one.
WEATHER systems, as the world has recently been reminded, have awesome power. The energy released by a large hurricane can exceed the energy consumption of the human race for a whole year, and even an average tornado has a power similar to that of a large power station. If only mankind could harness that energy, rather than being at its mercy. Louis Michaud, a Canadian engineer who works at a large oil company, believes he has devised a way to do just that, by generating artificial whirlwinds that can be controlled and harnessed. He calls his invention the “atmospheric vortex engine”.
Alternative energy | The power of spin | Economist.com
Louis Michaud's Website: Atmospheric Vortex Engine
Posted by bill at October 5, 2005 11:46 PM