'Windhexe'. How is this possible?

[Larspeart]

Alright, I'll keep my post and questions short, because I am stumped.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4723367/

 

[richardm]

Cool!

I want a mini version for my kitchen. It'd be great for grinding spices and coffee

 

[garys_2k]

Sounds like a regular, plain old centrifugal dust collector as used by any industry that uses dusty processes.

I'd bet that the inside of that cone is getting covered with a gooey crust from all that wet junk he's feeding into it, but I wouldn't expect too thorough an analysis by a reporter that says thing like "...they swirl about and essentially create a miniature funnel cloud, whipping around at incalculable speeds."

Please. The speed is calculable, the guy was snowed.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Dyson vacuum cleaners. Hydroclone fluid / solid separators. Well known equipment. This seems similar, just bigger. I also bet the inside will need frequent descale and cleaning. Don't see anything impossible or woowoo about it. Like the man says- if it works, it works.

 

[Dragonrock]

For some reason when I read this;

The Windhexe could make a huge difference in the safe processing and disposal of hazardous animal, human and industrial waste. With a whir of the Windhexe, you could turn such waste it into a powder that takes up one-tenth the space in a landfill

The phrase "Solent Green is People!!" popped into my head.

 

[Denise]

For some reason when I read this;



The phrase "Solent Green is People!!" popped into my head.

I think it is Soylent Green. But now I'm very scared....

 

[Psi Baba]

This paragraph gave me pause:

Polifka and his partners at Vortex have kept quiet ever since. Even now, they don’t like to divulge much in the way of an explanation of how the machine works. “Speed kills. Information too fast can kill,” said David Winsness, Vortex’s president.

But apparently they are selling the things on the open market, so someone should be able to get ahold of one to see how it works.