Posted on 08/18/2006 7:37:36 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
An Irish company threw down the gauntlet on Friday to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy.
The company, Steorn (http://www.steorn.net), says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics.
It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars.
Steorn issued its challenge through an advertisement in the Economist magazine this week quoting Ireland's Nobel prize-winning author George Bernard Shaw who said that "all great truths begin as blasphemies".
Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said they had issued the challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so it can be developed.
"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.
"The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy," he told Ireland's RTE radio.
McCarthy said Steorn had not set out to develop the technology, but "it actually fell out of another project we were working on".
One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.
McCarthy said a big obstacle to overcome was the disbelief that what they had developed was even possible.
"For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.
"But we have been unable to get significant scientific interest in it. We have had scientists come in, test it and, off the record, they are quite happy to admit that it works.
"But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said.
So at the end of each Shuttle mission, when the crew applies thrust against the direction of motion to slow down in orbit, it's really not deorbiting at all? Hundreds of astronauts must be accumulating on some secret base on the Moon.
Here, I'll help you out. The Challenge
Isn't this similar to the claims made by monopole generator proponents?
And yes, I could have worded it differently upon retrospect. You do know an orbiting body has a slower velocity with a higher altitude? And indeed that requires a Delta-V (for a satellite) to accomplish that feat. Often a Hohmann transfer orbit.
hrmn. if it exports energy, it must be acquiring it from somewhere.
nothing wrong with magnetic field induction yielding electricity - hell, that's basically a radio receiver.
speculation:
conceivably, something could convert passage through magnetic field of the earth into electricity.
barely conceivably, a mechanism could convert more of the earth's magnetism into electricity than is used in its propulsion.
of course, it would have some (immeasurably small) impact on the magma current which produces the magnetic field to begin with.
not "creation of" energy, but on its face looks like "free" energy.
Check out using a tether in orbit for power generation.
I think you've re-invented the Aurora Borealis.
1. does it work?
2. how long until it hits the energy in-out break-even point (equals/exceeds amount of energy needed to loft its mass into orbit and maintain that orbit)?
full disclosure - I read some stuff on Tesla a couple of decades ago
Not that 'zero-point' energy again!
Yeah... it sounds..... interesting.....
The Patent Office is extremely not interested.
given the antics of the ChiComs, does the Patent Office of any nation have an relevance any longer?
The Patent office is useful if you are a major American corporation with a couple dozen corporate staff attorneys specializing in property rights. Otherwise it is a kind of vanity thing.
ah.
I believe that if you place this device on a rotating shaft, moving through a magnetic field, that this is what the ancient mystics referred to as an "electric generator". All you gotta do is crank the thing and BAM! Instant, free energy. You just keep crankin' that for me, okay? (What was it P.T. Barnum said...?)
"The Patent office is useful if you are a major American corporation with a couple dozen corporate staff attorneys specializing in property rights. Otherwise it is a kind of vanity thing."
Oh, brother. I've patented inventions to discourage havng the ideas stolen by competing companies. Vanity had nothing to do with it. It was about making money.
Their invention is cursed by the Faery Folk. Its previous owner was a Leprechaun who failed to forward a magical letter to ten of his imaginary friends and send one gold coin to the person at the top of the list.
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