Tornado in a Can

geyser writes "What stuff matters more than a device that can tear things apart? Frank Polifka has a patent on his Windhexe device that creates a tornado force wind. Besides pulverizing concrete, it can pulverize small objects including jelly fish, and chicken feet without destroying the organic compounds. The chickens don't like it. Is this really a prototype Quake weapon? I could only find newspaper articles about the device. Has anyone seen it in action and can you give us a first hand report?"

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Actually

[Flamesplash]

Sounds like a good way to reduce land fill space. Just pulverize everything to the molecular level shake and let settle.

Re:They're going to feed us what??

[Znonymous Coward]

You know some guy down at the sewer treatment plant is saying "hey Larry.. I'll bet I could convince someone that its food.."

Actually, treated sewage sludge is regularly used to grow vegetables.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Toxic/sewadge_sl ud ge.cfm

DISEASE VECTOR!!!

[Ashurnasipal]

Ya know, a friend of mine died of Jakob-Kreutzfeld disease not too long ago.

It's supposed that he got it from eating beef contaminated by BSE, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, which is a prion disease spread through the industry practice of feeding butcher's waste to cattle.

Cannibalism is bad, people. Ref. Oliver Sach's description of diseases among the descendants of cannibals. It's an unhealthy feedback loop, that optimizes disease organisms.

So, the poultry farmers have already spread salmonella through the entire US chicken industry with their unsound practices, now they want to do it better, cheaper, faster.

So much for chicken soup as health food.

A real way to keep PCBs and such from the landfill

[greebly]

Put your old printed circuit boards in here and pulverize away! You could reclaim copper and gold EASILY from this contraption, and reduce the remainder to a fine powder. You could probably refine even that at a later point.

Think of it! Go down to the corner Tornado-in-a-can and feed it your old motherboard, monitor, TV, anything! Its a geek dream: pulverize something to tiny bits, recycle useable hardware, get some money back at the same time!

Prior Art?

[Bagheera]

Strange as it seems, I remember reading about a WWII German Aiti-Aircraft weapon that was strangely similar to this. Supposedly, it could generate vortecies powerful enough to make an aircraft uncontrollable in flight and in some cases break up. As I remember, it never had the range they wanted (tens, rather than thousands, of meters) and was never deployed operationally.

Looks like another 50-year-old technology has found a use doing something it wasn't originally designed for.