Tornado Booster Gas Saver Mileage Turbonator (merged)

[leet]

Actually, people have been creating man-made tornadoes for quite some years now, on a small scale in labs. I remember seeing a picture of a fire tornado that one guy made. Very sweet! I just don't see something like this federally funded while there is an oil tycoon sitting in the big chair.

Still, it would be cool to take a drive out into the country to watch a tornado in a field standing absolutely still.

To whomever reported this post:

Stop wasting my valuable time.

 

[xveganxcowboyx]

Did I miss something about compressed air? I was under the impression it was using entirely regular air, barring initial heating and steam.

Even if it didn't have the power of a typical tornado (don't see why it wouldn't, tornados are naturally isolated things) it would still have enough power to turn turbines and create electricity.

Local weather patterns and airplane routes might be effected though. Bird migration. Who knows what else. I'd like to see some studies looking at the use of this technology on a wide scale. As with anything, too much tends to have a noticeable impact. This is even true for things like solar and wind power.

 

[Defiant]

4) The amount of power need to generate this kinda of power would exceed the amount of power that it would produce.

This is where the trouble is. It'll be some breakthrough of physics to get more out than goes in.

 

[eclipsh]

Actually, vegan cowboy had it right. There is only an initial push of steam to get it started. After that normal tornado behavior of sucking in hot air from ground level keeps it going.

"His idea works on a similar principle to a solar chimney, which consists of a tall, hollow cylinder surrounded by a large greenhouse. The sun heats the air in the greenhouse, and the hot air rises. But its only escape route is via the chimney. A turbine at the base of the chimney generates electricity as the air rushes by. A small solar chimney was operated successfully in Spain in the 1980s, and EnviroMission, an Australian firm, is planning to build a 1,000-metre-high example in New South Wales. But the efficiency of such a system is proportional to the height of the chimney, notes Mr Michaud, which is limited by practical considerations. His scheme replaces the chimney with a tornado-like vortex of spinning air, which could extend several kilometres into the atmosphere."

Here's a better quote from his website

"Heating the air within the wall using a temporary heat source such as steam starts the vortex. The heat to sustain the vortex once established is provided in cooling tower bays located outside of the cylindrical wall and upstream of the deflectors. The continuous heat source for the peripheral heat exchanger can be waste industrial heat or warm seawater."

 

[twitch49k]

i guess its some kind of device that goes in your intake tube and will supposedly give you up to 50 hp. sounded kinda cheesy to me, but thought i would ask around about it. if anyone knows anything about it let me know. thanks guy, and your help is always appreciated

 

[thatblondechik]

Yea. That's crap. Sounds kinda like the whole "Electric Supercharger" thing..."Just hook it up to your battery, and BOOM! Instant 430hp!!!"

Yea right.

 

[MrBoxx]

I'll merge this with the other "tornado" gas saver crap.

But first a little geometry: You have a straight intake tube. You put in your little tornado maker. Maybe it makes a little vortex in that straight intake tube. Great.

K... now that straight intake tube makes a 90* turn, hits a half-open throttle plate, then enters a giant room, with FOUR exits. Think that spinning vortex is still spinning when it hits the fuel injectors? I don't think so. That's on your basic NA car. On a turbo car, it's absolutely pointless, and in fact, the Tornado doesn't have any applications for turbocharged vehicles.