Climate of Our Future

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It sounds implausible, but researchers in Canada are testing the idea of creating man-made tornadoes to generate clean power. The principle behind it is simple: when heat rises it creates temperature differential, and the air starts to swirl. To make an artificial tornado you would build a “vortex building”. Clean Break explains: Heated water from a power plant that would normally go to a cooling tower would instead be diverted to the vortex building to produce hot air. This would create the beginnings of a whirlwind. As the hot air rises it gathers energy and creates a vortex that…Read more