The Trinity Tornado

The Trinity Tornado

Sunday, July 27, 2003
| Ephesians 3:14-21

A farmer in Kansas has invented a tornado in a can capable of crushing rocks, diapers, chicken offal, wood chips and more into dust. This is one powerful contraption, but doesn’t begin to approach what the apostle Paul attempts to describe when he talks about the power that works within us!

Everyone complains about the weather ... but nobody DOES anything about it.

Until now.

Frank Polifka, a white-bearded, lifelong Kansas farmer has figured out how to create, contain and control the raw and tremendous power of a Great Plains whirlwind — inside a large tin can he’s built behind his barn.

He’s put his contraption, a cyclone-making machine — a tornado in a can — to good use by creating radically new possibilities in waste management, food dehydration and a host of other twisted surprises.

It sounds kind of crazy, but Polifka used his weather sense, ingenuity and hard work over many years to create an apparatus he anticipates will do “exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think” (3:20 KJV), because it’s astonishingly useful. One big company executive commented, “It kind of looks like something your uncle might invent in the back yard. But it really sparks the imagination what you could do with it.”

Inside Mr. Polifka’s corrugated shed that serves as the test site ...










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