Steorn (ready for) Scientists to Test Free Energy Technology

PES Network ^ | 8/25/2006

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Steorn's technology is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy. The company says the technology can be applied to virtually all devices requiring energy, from cellular phones to cars.

Too bad he can't make one work in any of these applications.

[Brilliant]

That's what it sounds like. This guy is a very brazen con man, isn't he?

[theFIRMbss]

>I still say it's a potato gun

Until these fellows build one and make it function it's not even that!

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Funny article on Steorn here.

[B-Chan]

It's not necessarily a fraud; it may simply be a case of the source of energy being less than obvious. For example, the machine may somehow be extracting energy from Casmir or van der Waals forces, which would amount to vacuum energy extraction. The late Dr. Robert Forward of the Hughes Corporation proposed just such a Casmir force "battery" over twenty years ago.

A bar of white-hot iron and a bar of ice-cold uranium: which possesses the most latent energy? A scientist of 1806 would have scoffed at the notion that cold uranium had any potential energy at all. We know differently now. In 1806, a theoretical basis for nuclear physics did not exist. Who knows what wonders we of 2006 might be missing?

I predict that whether this gadget works or not it will be reported as another failed attempt at perpetual motion by the peer-reviewed science press. If it's fake, they'll trumpet it to the winds. If its real, it'll end up under so much security that the likes of you and I will never hear of it again.

[Brilliant]

If he walks off with a bunch of money, then I consider that a fraud.

[Lekker 1]

Okay, where do I send the check?

[ltc8k6]

Incorrect measurements are not a free energy source.

[wastedyears]

Mythbusters is a great show.

[BJClinton]

I call shenanigans.

[alarmguy]

Great book.

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

Q. Why did God create whisky?

A. So the Irish would not rule the world.

[wastedyears]

They also once thought the solar system was geocentric...

[sam_paine]

like the "It!' several years ago (a glorified scooter vastly inferior to most other 2 wheel scooters.)

Oh Lord help us! [running away from thread before the Segway lovers assault you]

[roaddog727]

After reading several articles on this, seeing this guy on Cavuto, and then thinking on this a bit, perhaps this is not all that outlandish if looked at from a macroscopic perspective as opposed to the typical microscopic perspective.

So, to begin with, where does magnetism ultimately come from? If I am not mistaken, a substance becomes magnetized (if it has the ability to become magnetized)as it passes through an electromagnetic field. The last time I looked, the earth is surrounded by a rather large field. And the earth both rotates as well as precesses through our little piece of solar system at a pretty fair pace, and this is through the sun's fields. Our movement through these fields could then potentially be the energy source from which this magnet engine derives the apparent limitless energy effect.

Perhaps this is naive thinking, but then again perhaps not.

So. How is my logic faulty? Flame on - I'm wearing my body armor.

[dljordan]

"Just for the sake of argument, if such a thing could be created I would think that selling the "energy generators" would supplant meters. If the corporate giants could somehow stifle free enterprise I would argue that this would be so big you'd see work shop models being manufactured all over the place. Sort of the same thing that happened with the Wright brothers."

Here's one I found a while back when I googled "magnetic motors".

http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2004/06/30/6900029PerendevPowerMagneticMotor/index.html

[dljordan]

"You need magnets the size of Rosie O'Donnell."

But not as fugly.

[Lee'sGhost]

Thanks! I just ordered two.

[doc30]

From other articles on FR on this subject, you can walk around their magnet and get energy for your electronic devices. Basically, by moving around a magnet, you can generate electricity. Simple, age-old principle. In this case, the energy from walking around or moving about in a magnetic field is transferred to electrical energy, and can power devices. The fraud is in saying it's free energy. It's not.