Posted on 08/19/2006 7:30:04 AM PDT by Neville72
August 19, 2006
Steorn, an Irish company, claims to have produced a groundbreaking (we do not use this word lightly) technology which is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and produces free, clean and constant energy. If the claims are true, the new technology will enable 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 will also provide a secure supply of energy, since the components of the technology are readily available. Steorn’s technology is claimed to allow the production of clean, free and constant energy. Steorn’s technology appears to violate the ‘Principle of the Conservation of Energy’, (energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form) considered by many to be the most fundamental principle in our current understanding of the universe. Fully aware that its claims will be considered bunkum by anyone who has graduated kindergarten, Steorn today issued a challenge to the global scientific community to test its free energy technology. Steorn has placed an advertisement in The Economist to attract the attention of the world’s leading scientists working in the field of experimental physics. From all the scientists who accept the challenge, twelve will be invited to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove that Steorn’s technology creates free energy. The results will be published worldwide.
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 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 the technology creates free energy.
This represents a significant challenge to 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 are claimed (by Steorn) to have all confirmed the company's 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 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.”
Eureka!
Hey, that's mine old drill press! I've been looking for that.
I'd say dubious would be an understatement for this technology claim.
appears to violate the ‘Principle of the Conservation of Energy’
I doubt that.
If I were him, I'd hook it up to my house and car and never pay for energy again. Why bother with an ad in The Economist.
....looks like a potato gun.
By law, the U.S. Patent Office cannot accept or examine a patent for a perpetual motion machine.
The reason is that at one time examining (and rejecting) such patents consumed a considerable amount of resources. Such "inventions" are often fiendishly clever and difficult to refute.
nothing ain't worth nothing but its free
Sounds like it's cheap to make. Let the inventors set up a power plant large enough to power a town and prove that it can be profitable.
Cool that they're opening the technology to debate. I sure hope things work out for them! It would be good for everyone.
True, but sometimes you can stick someone else with the bill...
The Economist? Is he looking for Physicists? Or Investors?
Yeah, I'm dubious too. But given that the MSM has decided not to run this story their must be SOMETHING to it.
Yup.
Snake Oil!
.....Is he looking for Physicists? Or Investors?
If it works he won't lack for investors.
More like he's looking for investors. He should really advertise it in the National Enquirer.
I believe that 'entropy' thing will get in the way again.
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