{"id":1264,"date":"2016-03-08T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2018-04-09T06:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T06:48:56","slug":"second-prototype-of-toroidal-ring-vortex-machine-undergoing-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/08\/second-prototype-of-toroidal-ring-vortex-machine-undergoing-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Toroidal Ring Vortex machines pulling the crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of scrabbling around in the back blocks of Australia\u2019s farm &#8216;resource collections\u2019 (i.e. the back paddock dump) a second Toroidal Ring Vortex machine has been discovered and has being successfully restored.<\/p>\n<p>Controversially, this is apparently a World War 11 German Wehrmacht machine known as a HF99. The HF apparently stands for Himmel Furz. Finding parts has been very tricky indeed especially something known as \u201cdie Klappe Foofer\u201d. Any suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not know of the Toroidal Ring Vortex Machine, the video clip below shows one being operated by IBYS head chutney consultant Billie Justice Thomson.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ring Vortex Puffer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/68824151?h=9aeb10d896&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is another recent demonstration of the HimmelFurz<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ring Vortex Generator at Science Alive\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/189487422?h=589d6e9f96&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Toroidal Ring Vortex Generators are available for hire under certain conditions (email <a href=\"mailto:mark@ibys.org\">mark@ibys.org<\/a> to start that conversation). They are an enduring source of wonder for all. The first Ring vortex Generator has now been hit\/whacked\/hammered an estimated 100,000 times plus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1296\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1296\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smoke-ringwars2-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smoke-ringwars2-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smoke-ringwars2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/smoke-ringwars2-1022x1024.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new\/old Himmelfurz in action at Tonsley Innovation Hubarama, South Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1295\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Himmelfurz-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Himmelfurz-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Himmelfurz-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Himmelfurz-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Himmelfurz.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And in case you wondered whether they pull a crowd, check out the clip below from Science Alive 2017. Long queues!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Science Alive 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/229496886?h=c54a9a7203&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of scrabbling around in the back blocks of Australia\u2019s farm &#8216;resource collections\u2019 (i.e. the back paddock dump) a second Toroidal Ring Vortex machine has been discovered and has being successfully restored. Controversially, this is apparently a World War 11 German Wehrmacht machine known as a HF99. The HF apparently stands for Himmel Furz. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/08\/second-prototype-of-toroidal-ring-vortex-machine-undergoing-trials\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toroidal Ring Vortex machines pulling the crowds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}