Posted on 08/28/2006 2:26:14 PM PDT by batmast
Our Technology and the Laws of Physics
Steorn’s technology produces free, clean and constant energy. This provides a significant range of benefits, from the convenience of never having to refuel your car or recharge your mobile phone, to a genuine solution to the need for zero emission energy production. It also provides a secure supply of energy, since the components of the technology are readily available.
The technology is in a constant state of development. The company has focused for the past three years on increasing power output and the development of test systems that allow detailed analysis to be performed.
Steorn’s technology appears to violate the ‘Principle of the Conservation of Energy’, considered by many to be the most fundamental principle in our current understanding of the universe. This principle is stated simply as ‘energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form’.
Steorn is making three claims for its technology:
The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%. The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts. There is no identifiable environmental source of the energy (as might be witnessed by a cooling of ambient air temperature). The sum of these claims is that our technology creates free energy.
This represents a significant challenge to our current understanding of the universe and clearly such claims require independent validation from credible third parties. During 2005 Steorn embarked on a process of independent validation and approached a wide selection of academic institutions. The vast majority of these institutions refused to even look at the technology, however several did. Those who were prepared to complete testing have all confirmed our claims; however none will publicly go on record.
In early 2006 Steorn decided to seek validation from the scientific community in a more public forum, and as a result have published the challenge in The Economist. The company is seeking a jury of twelve qualified experimental physicists to define the tests required, the test centres to be used, monitor the analysis and then publish the results.
Steorn has decided to publish its challenge in The Economist because of the breadth of its readership. "We chose it over a purely scientific magazine simply because we want to make the general public aware that this process is about to commence and to generate public support, awareness, interest etc for what we are doing."
It doesn't matter how many threads this generates, it isn't generating energy form nothing.
If it fails it fails. If not, and if they have stumbled onto some previously unknown phenomena, then the scietific community has the data to study, the patent office might consider a patent for it, and then they can make some money and we can tell the ragheads to go eat sand and drink their oil.
From my point of view, I have nothing to lose and am quite willing to keep an open mind and sit back and watch.
I may not be a physisist, but I'm smart enough to know, or at least surmise, that what we know about the universe could probably fill a thimble.
Relatively speaking.
There is not much that would attract the attention of the physicists and engineers of the world quicker than a slight hint of such a possibility. Every last one of them would put his project car out of the garage and start building these new devices in that space this weekend.
The community of epistemologists doesn't need any data. They would need only a rumor, a hint that it is possible. Any of them can come up with the solution just from knowing it is posible.
They have earned an escort out of the office to the door.
Steòrn is Gaelic for guide, direct or manage.
Not the magnets that they would seem to be using. Those are created by using massive ammounts of electricity and don't exist naturally.
TANSTAFL.
It may not violate the "laws", just found an additional source and one possible way to tap it.
Indeed. But think of the energy needed to create that which they are "tapping" into. They would not be creating energy as they state...simply converting it.
TANSTAFL.
This is exactly the kind of sham the ESP hucksters use: accept challenges, or invite challenges, from the scientific community with much public fanfare, then never hold the tests. I would bet a goodly sum that this "validation process" will never take place, due ostensibly to "disagreements about the experimental design," "unreasonable demands from the scientists," "refusal to conduct the test fairly," etc. etc. This will never be reported upon of course, and the bids for private financing will come as surely as the rain follows the thunder and lightning.
Agreed. But is this just a matter of semantics here, creating energy as opposed to capturing, or generating or tapping into?
A poor choice of words to be sure.
.. the boy cried wolf so many time that when the wolf did indeed show, the villagers did not come to investigate.
So what was the moral of the story? Not to cry wolf when there is none; or if something is important or desirable to know, is it not worth checking out on the off chance it might be correct?
Both I suspect. But regardless of learning the lesson not to cry wolf, wolf has already been cried many times before, that damage is done. Do we stop investigating?
BTW: I hear it told that the Big Bang, was quite an energetic event. And hey we've just discovered that dark matter might actually exist.
Hey, I got my popcorn, and my beer. :-))
Right. That's why our aircraft no longer need fuelling or refuelling midflight. Those little antigravity chips just do it right.
Feh. This is stupid if only for a single reason: as far as I know Steorn is not heavily investing on a plant for some industrial process that requires cheap material but huge amounts of energy. It's like the fellow that sells an infallible formula to win the lottery, but doesn't buy lottery tickets.
If it were me, royalty's alone would be just fine.
I'm not investing now. If it works I'll probably miss out on the investment opportunities anyway. So I'll bitch and moan about that, but I'll tell you this; I'll will be absolutely school girl giddy at the prospects of the ragheads washing down their sandy meal with a glass of oil, lamenting the fact that they squandered their oil wealth on gold toilette seats, Rolls limos, jumbo jets, and grand palaces that will all rust, rot and turn to dust.
I'm rooting for the underdog here. Hope he wins!
Thanks. The quote is accurate, though.
In a generator no work is done on magnetism alone. It is the mechanical motion of the wires (or rotor) moving through the magnetic field that generates the current. It takes more mechanical energy into the system from a turbine or engine that comes out as electrical energy on the wires. The losses are heat from friction and resistance. We do not generate or capture energy in an electrical generator, we transform mechanical energy from an outside source into electrical energy and heat.
From my point of view, this is also used as an approach to secure federal funding for further research. I pay for it whether I want to or not. If the darn thing worked, they can patent it and make a small scale product to prove the process.
No doubt!
Oddly enough there was a hint, but nobody seemed interested, at least publically.
Tell me this. If you were the one to stumble onto this phenomena, one that would rewrite our future, destroy and create industries overnight; a method or device that patent offices around the world would refuse to even look at - would you throw it up on the net with all the other "free energy devices" for all the world to see, or would you sucumb to you own mercinary, materialistic needs and want to get it pantened so you could license it and feed your family and get that Carribean Island you always wanted?
And if the latter, wouldn't you need the scientific validation to take to the patent office with you?
No you don't. You can patent the process without it even working.
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