Urban drainage systems have increasingly incorporated vortex flow mechanisms to efficiently dissipate hydraulic energy while minimising structural damage and regulating discharge. Vortex drop shafts ...

Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded polar vortex in a way that will send much of the United States a devastating dose of winter weather later this week ...

Over on his YouTube channel [Construction General] shows us how to convert a drain into a hydropower facility. This type of hydroelectric facility is known as a gravitation water vortex power plant.

It’s an understatement to say it’s been a very cold winter. And it’s not close to being over. Reviewing our longer-term weather patterns, we are likely in for more freezing days ahead. You can thank a ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, the brutal polar vortex that gripped the Great Lakes turned into something strangely beautiful. A satellite view captured ghostly spirals of ice curling across Lake ...