http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/ Engadget Comments for Mercedes museum hosts most powerful artificial tornado http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 29th 2007 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/
BTW, you are forgetting that this was designed for a German company, it probably has a triple redundancy on the backups.]]>Oct 28th 2007 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 28th 2007 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/I'd like to stay right under it! Yes, I know it's smoke, but still.]]>Oct 27th 2007 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/
As for emergency power, the generator for the building had to be sized large enough to power this as well as the fire pump. It was way oversized for the load of the building alone...]]>Oct 27th 2007 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/
I...I mean it blows!

Awww I don't know what I mean, I'm all turned around!]]>Oct 27th 2007 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 28th 2007 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/
Then you make some windows so you can see the tornado (a cardboard box with glad wrap would do it). And vertically across each corner you make a rectangular hole from top to bottom.

On the bottom end, you need a smoke generator. Or you could use steam. Get a mini butane gas stove heating a pan of boiling water would do it. Then on the top you need a powered fan to suck the air up.

When you get it all going, the vortex forms from the smoke source (steam) and will run all the way to the top through the fan. Looks pretty cool =)



Amazingly after some Googling, the website I used as my instruction guide is still up. Here it is:
http://www.tornadoproject.com/cellar/workshop.htm]]>Oct 28th 2007 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 27th 2007 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 29th 2007 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/
We have a winner! No more entries!]]>Oct 28th 2007 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 28th 2007 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/
throw styrofoam animals up there - a nice scene from TWISTER ;)

hundreds of balloons - virtual lava lamp?]]>Oct 28th 2007 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 28th 2007 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 28th 2007 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/
Do you have a link?]]>Oct 28th 2007 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 28th 2007 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.iastate.edu/Inside/04/0430/tornado.shtml]]>Oct 28th 2007 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 28th 2007 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Researcher 1:So, we've created this great tornado machine that can similate up to an F5.

Researcher 2: Hmm, so now what are we going to do with it.

Researcher 1: Lets find something to throw in there and see what happens!

Researcher 2: Brilliant!
]]>Oct 28th 2007 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 28th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.iastate.edu/Inside/04/0430/tornado.shtml]]>Oct 28th 2007 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/mercedes-musuem-hosts-most-powerful-artificial-tornado/Oct 29th 2007 1:05PM