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1 posted on 08/18/2006 7:37:37 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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2 posted on 08/18/2006 7:38:35 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Everything is blasphemy to somebody.)
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Cold Fusion alert. Extraordinary claims, require extraordinary proof alert too.


3 posted on 08/18/2006 7:39:13 AM PDT by tdewey10 (Can we please take out Iran's nuclear capability before they start using it?)
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As bazaar as this sounds, I don't see a problem with requesting a review process. Debunk the dang thing and move on.


5 posted on 08/18/2006 7:41:24 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Bring your press credentials to Qana, for the world's most convincing terrorist street theater.)
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Exxon hit squads will be coming after this guy. ;o)


6 posted on 08/18/2006 7:42:43 AM PDT by pissant
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Hmmmmm.


7 posted on 08/18/2006 7:43:21 AM PDT by wbill
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This is not passing the smell test even slightly. Nothing wrong with a review of it, I suppose, if only to get the kooks to be quiet. Reminds me of that cold fusion debacle a few years back.


8 posted on 08/18/2006 7:43:54 AM PDT by JamesP81 ("Never let your schooling interfere with your education" --Mark Twain)
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This is absolute bullcrap. It's an accepted and proveable Gaussian theory that the line integral around any closed surface is 0. If this guy thinks he can get energy out of that, he's fooling himself. Nice try though.


11 posted on 08/18/2006 7:45:52 AM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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McCarthy said Steorn had not set out to develop the technology, but "it actually fell out of another project we were working on".

This could be big. The same sort of thing led to Post-Its.

13 posted on 08/18/2006 7:48:49 AM PDT by Wolfie
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They don't need "credible, academic validation in the public domain", they need a working product.


14 posted on 08/18/2006 7:48:59 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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It's not free energy, they're stealing it from a neighboring dimension - and man are those guys going to be mad when they find out!


15 posted on 08/18/2006 7:49:53 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
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PURE BS> advertising gimmick, kinda like the "IT" which later became the (i forgot the name of that 2-wheeled stabilized cart)

They write "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."

They chose not to write a scientific article and submit it to a technical journal for peer review which is the best way to get their technology reviewed, rather than this nonsense of generating a public demand and pressure.


16 posted on 08/18/2006 7:49:55 AM PDT by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")
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"NO BLOOD FOR MAGNETS"!!


17 posted on 08/18/2006 7:50:18 AM PDT by jbwbubba
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Ignore the fact that you have to shake the thing to make it work.


18 posted on 08/18/2006 7:50:48 AM PDT by Kirkwood
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You don't get something from nothing and if it sounds too good to be true>>>.....

Has this discovery been reported in any credible scientific journal?? The nondescript article says very little--what energy is obtained?? Is it kinetic, heat, chemical, potential, what the hell kind is it??

The conservation of energy law has been valid for many centuries and reading some article about a perpetual energy source is way over the top for me.


20 posted on 08/18/2006 7:51:54 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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From their website:

Steorn is making three claims for its technology:

1. The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%.
2. The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts.
3. 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.

I call BS.

It's a perpetual motion machine with a slick website.

23 posted on 08/18/2006 7:55:50 AM PDT by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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www.steorn.net
24 posted on 08/18/2006 7:58:10 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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It's really the little people putting one over on the boys. Those Leprechauns. Such kidders.


26 posted on 08/18/2006 8:00:00 AM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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It never ceases to amaze me that when someone creates a revolutionary product they can't use the device to make money. If this works, they should just create a prototype and do the things they just claimed they could do, instead of having some one look at it first.

Look at it this way: if you can power things, wire up your prototype so you can disconnect from the power grid. Use the money saved from buying that power to finance your own company and file the patents to make yourself rich. Heck, if you can do that, form your own power company and start selling power to the neighbors. You would be a billionaire in no time, and you wouldn't need scientists to "test your idea", since it would be blatantly obvious to everyone except liberal democrats that it worked.

You don't have to even do it on a large scale. If you could create a device that replaces batteries permanently, you could make billions off of that alone, not to mention selling the rights to incorporate your technology into every powered appliance in the world!

But, they never do this. They always want other people to look at it, and then try to get "investors" to put money into it. Then they are always "just this close" to making it work, and if only they had some more investors . . .

And the cycle begins again. They want more people to look at it, and then they need more money to "perfect" their device. . .

28 posted on 08/18/2006 8:01:16 AM PDT by The Enlightener (If had a nickel for each person selling "free" energy. . .)
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God has provided; it is up to us to dicover what He has provided.


30 posted on 08/18/2006 8:03:45 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help m)
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"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.

Heat generation? Einstein talked about what he called the ethos. It was the space between matter. According to him, the ethos bends when it meets matter. Add the electrical charge from the magnets to the ethos equation, and then what? From a quantum point of view, what would happen if this ethos could be built up with an electrical charge and wrapped up in itself - like tightening a super string rubber band?
I'd like to know if they really have something - for real.
It would destroy the worlds economy,though, and it would cause one heck of an oil rich Arab Jihad! The Arab nations would have nothing to sell but sand.

32 posted on 08/18/2006 8:04:45 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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