scombrid
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Dutchsinse has repeatedly claimed that work highlighted by The Weather Channel demonstrated the creation of a tornado via microwave heating in a controlled laboratory setting.
He has claimed this as recently as March 6, 2014 on Facebook:
This facebook post links to a youtube video dated August 29, 2013.
That video is a direct ripoff of footage from the Weather Channel production "Hacking the Planet". In that video a mechanical engineer that works in veterinary orthopedics, Dr. Slobodan Tepic, hypothesizes that one could use microwaves to heat a column of air and create a stationary vortex with the inflowing air at the bottom being used to spin a turbine and create electricity. He had created an experiment wherein a LASER was beamed through a jar of water at a metal plate at the top of the water. According to the video the plate was to represent the upper atmosphere and heating the plate with a laser would be like heating the upper atmosphere with microwaves. The plate did warm slightly and no vortex was created in the jar. Of course if you want to induce buoyancy driven convection then you probably want to heat the bottom and cool the top. The Weather Channel had to insert a graphic to demonstrate what it would look like IF the experiment had generated a vortex since the experiment fails.
Dutchsinse claimed and still claims that failure as "proof of concept" of creating tornadoes in nature using microwaves.
Tim Solrey already covered this in another thread but I felt like Dutch's repetition of this bunk deserved its own thread.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/de...-in-paper-from-stanford.491/page-4#post-39811
He has claimed this as recently as March 6, 2014 on Facebook:
External Quote:
https://www.facebook.com/DutchsinseOfficial/posts/10201313797235970?stream_ref=10External Quote:
This facebook post links to a youtube video dated August 29, 2013.
That video is a direct ripoff of footage from the Weather Channel production "Hacking the Planet". In that video a mechanical engineer that works in veterinary orthopedics, Dr. Slobodan Tepic, hypothesizes that one could use microwaves to heat a column of air and create a stationary vortex with the inflowing air at the bottom being used to spin a turbine and create electricity. He had created an experiment wherein a LASER was beamed through a jar of water at a metal plate at the top of the water. According to the video the plate was to represent the upper atmosphere and heating the plate with a laser would be like heating the upper atmosphere with microwaves. The plate did warm slightly and no vortex was created in the jar. Of course if you want to induce buoyancy driven convection then you probably want to heat the bottom and cool the top. The Weather Channel had to insert a graphic to demonstrate what it would look like IF the experiment had generated a vortex since the experiment fails.
Dutchsinse claimed and still claims that failure as "proof of concept" of creating tornadoes in nature using microwaves.
Tim Solrey already covered this in another thread but I felt like Dutch's repetition of this bunk deserved its own thread.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/de...-in-paper-from-stanford.491/page-4#post-39811
