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Pixie dust. I wonder if flash2368 was one who believed the hype for the Segway. It too was going to “change everything”.

Well, there's a difference: At least the Segway works in principle - and who knows, with better batteries and after the patents have expired the combination of software and mechanics that Segway uses might even catch on. For $150 I'd buy one - for $5,000, well not so much.

Steorn on the other hand defies logic, physics and common sense.
Does anyone have ANY idea where this ‘free’ energy is coming from? Geothermal, solar, nuclear, wind, tides, moonlight or ????

That's the thing. AFAIK the Orbo device is a contraption of mechanic and electromagnetic element, basically a take on the old perpetuum mobile idea. Only problem: that doesn't work. Other companies claim that they can access more exotic forms of energy like zero-point energy etc. The only way to get "free" energy is renewable energy, which is free in the sense that it uses external energy sources in nature and produces more energy than is needed to manufacture the device (maybe half a dozen times for solar cells and a few dozen times for wind turbines). It's not "free" in the economic sense, however, and if you aren't careful (e.g. solar power makes more sense in Arizona than in Alaska) your net energy gain is also rubbish.