The World's Strongest Man-Made Tornado - Artificially Generated Tornado in Mercedes Benz Museum. Located in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by Dutch architectural design studio UNStudio, the Mercedes-Benz Museum is more than just a modern exhibition space featuring over 160 vehicles.
This place is home to the ‘strongest artificially generated tornado in the world’ according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The man-made smoke removal system 34.4 meter high (112.86 ft) is located in this spacious central clearing, reaching from the ground floor up to the ceiling of the structure. Check out the video, below, to see the artificial tornado in motion. International Dome House. Solar Slab. Using large super-insulated water tanks to inter-seasonally store solar hot water is popularly known as the Sonnenhaus concept in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The water tanks vary in size from 40,000 litres for a standard house to up to 200,000 litres for apartment buildings and usually cost between £1.50-£2.00/litre. Sonnenhause owners boast heating bills 50% lower than the occupants of Passive Houses. The Solar panels and Water tank can be a costly addition to the construction budget and they can take up quite a bit of room.
In order to explore this concept a super-insulated 10,000L Hydro Thermal Energy Store (below) was connected to 24m2 of Solar tubes in Cork in 2008, this reduced the clients heating/hot water bill by 65%. 24m2 of drain-back solar thermal tubes heat the water in the tank which reaches over 90 degrees most summers. A 12V PV powered pump fills the drain-back solar tubes with water when the sun shines, so there is no need to use antifreeze.