GreenShift's Prototype Tornado Generator™ Awarded Patent

Mount Arlington, NJ — GreenShift Corporation has announced that the early-stage prototype of one of the technologies used in certain applications of GreenShift's proprietary Tornado Generator™ technology was awarded patent protection this week.

GreenShift's Tornado Generator™ accelerates compressed air to supersonic speeds in a closed cyclonic chamber where the air is powerful enough to almost instantly grind, flash desiccate and atomize solid and liquid wastes and other materials into micron sized powders.

The patent was awarded for a device called the Windhexe that was invented by Kansas-based farmer and inventor, Frank Polifka, to improve the processing of agricultural wastes. The Windhexe is one of the more innovative implementations of the concept of harnessing the relative power of a tornado for use in industrial applications, and it is one of the technologies used in certain applications of GreenShift's proprietary Tornado Generator™ technology. GreenShift Industrial Design Corporation ("GIDC"), a wholly owned GreenShift company, holds an exclusive license for certain applications of the Windhexe.

The current generation of GreenShift's proprietary Tornado Generator™ is a completely contained system with no internal moving parts that is powered by compressed air. It can safely and cost-effectively and rapidly process a very broad array of wastes including agricultural wastes, septic wastes, municipal solid wastes, and construction and demolition wastes. In its most basic mode of operation, the Tornado Generator™ can simply be used to dramatically reduce the volume of targeted wastes by about 90%, as well as the associated transportation and disposal costs.

David Winsness, GIDC's chief executive officer, said that "The Windhexe patent is the culmination of the ingenuity and many years of hard work of Frank Polifka and he should be commended for inventing what we are convinced is a 'killer-app' green technology. The efficiency of a great many processes that seek to grind, shred, pulverize, atomize, mix, and/or dry solid or liquid media, and not just waste materials, can be improved with our technology. Pilot versions of the technology have been and continue to be tested in industries as diverse as food products manufacturing, coal processing, trash processing, sewage sludge processing, metal mining, agricultural waste processing. We intend to demonstrate its commercial viability in the immediate term as we surgically target and deploy sewage, trash, food products, consumer electronics, and debris management applications."

SOURCE: GreenShift Corporation