A Mighty Wind Against Waste (washingtonpost.com)
“The possibilities inspire the imagination,” said Lewis Carr, a University of Maryland agricultural scientist who oversaw tests of an earlier prototype at the Salisbury campus on the Eastern Shore. “I expect to see this in the future. The question is how quickly it’s going to get to the future.”
Polifka calls his creation a “tornado in a can,” though the official name painted on the side of the cone is Windhexe — a branding inspired by the devil winds that sweep the Kansas plains that the 73-year-old Polifka has farmed all his life.