Here’s a cool idea for generating energy: Harness the power of one of Nature’s baddest mammajammas and use it to do good. Tornados: They suck, a knowledge gained firsthand by many a hapless trailer park inhabitant across the American midwest. Well, a Canadian engineer has decided to try to capitalize on cyclonic power to spin turbine engines and generate electricity. He thinks he’s found a way to basically create a tornadic vortex in a controlled environment for just such a purpose. Better yet, he figures he can do it using waste heat from existing power plants.

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