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Old 10-27-2007, 07:02 PM
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Mercedes Tornado
on a cool scale of 1 to 10... an eleven...

Mercedes museum hosts most powerful artificial tornado - Engadget
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Old 10-27-2007, 07:27 PM
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Old 10-28-2007, 12:40 AM
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Old 10-28-2007, 11:38 AM
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pretty cool! new wind tunnel!
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Old 10-28-2007, 11:41 AM
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Old 10-28-2007, 07:06 PM
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Utterly useless, but definitely cool.
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Old 10-28-2007, 07:14 PM
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Utterly useless, but definitely cool.
Read the article; it has a very definite function. Maybe it's a bit over-the-top and a tad impractical, but not useless.

I think the coolest part is that they didn't set out to make the world's largest artificial tornado; they just made it as a solution to the problem of getting the building to comply with the fire code.
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Old 10-28-2007, 08:40 PM
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Read the article; it has a very definite function. Maybe it's a bit over-the-top and a tad impractical, but not useless.

I think the coolest part is that they didn't set out to make the world's largest artificial tornado; they just made it as a solution to the problem of getting the building to comply with the fire code.
Fine, not completely useless.

Still cool.
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Old 10-28-2007, 10:07 PM
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Their is also a use for man-made twisters.

What a Concept, Emissions Free Tornado Power » The Uber-Review

It is basically a tethered tornado which spins a giant generator. Cool stuff.
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Old 10-29-2007, 10:36 AM
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Well, for one thing, it's certainly the coolest safety measure that I've ever seen in a building.
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Old 10-29-2007, 10:43 AM
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An overly eccentric method of reducing smoke, but it is quite intresting. Hooray for German engineering
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Old 10-29-2007, 12:12 PM
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Their is also a use for man-made twisters.

What a Concept, Emissions Free Tornado Power » The Uber-Review

It is basically a tethered tornado which spins a giant generator. Cool stuff.
There was an article about that in Popular Science. Cool stuff indeed.
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