Posted on 08/29/2006 11:14:12 AM PDT by Uncledave
[Me: A few words deleted from title for fit and conciseness. Original: "Steorn calls time on application process for scientists to test free energy technology"]
Steorn calls time on application process for scientists to test free energy technology
Company will stop taking applications on Sept. 8, to serve on 12-member jury to review magnet motor free energy device, which science has hitherto said is impossible. Expects jury-designed testing to begin by end of the year.
DUBLIN, IRELAND -- Steorn, a technology development company, has today announced a cut-off date for scientists to respond to its challenge to take part in a public validation of its free energy technology. The deadline has been set for 12 midnight, September 8th.
Steorn placed an advertisement in the Economist on August 18th inviting 'the most qualified and the most cynical' scientists to step forward. More than 3,000 scientists have responded thus far.
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.
From all the scientists who accept Steorn's challenge, 12 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.
Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, said: "We expected a good response to our advertisement because of its potential and its implications for the scientific world. Our technology goes far beyond scientific curiosity and addresses many urgent global needs including security of energy supply and zero emission energy production. In order for these benefits to be achieved, we need the public validation and endorsement of the scientific community."
"The next stage is to go through the applications and validate the information that we have been presented with. That will enable us to select a jury of 12 of the world's best-qualified scientists who are prepared to test the technology and publish their findings to the world, whatever those findings turn out to be."
Steorn will contact all of the scientists who have applied to investigate its technology so that it can validate their educational background and areas of research.
It anticipates that testing will begin before the New Year. The length of time that the testing will take will be determined by the 12 scientists, as will the location and format of the test process.
Steorn was founded in 2000 and has developed cutting edge technologies for third parties, including optical disc forensic analysis and plastic card fraud prevention technologies. It is now focused on the commercialization of its free energy technology, after the validation has been complete -- if validation indeed results from the testing..
Too bad he can't make one work in any of these applications.
That's what it sounds like. This guy is a very brazen con man, isn't he?
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Until these fellows build one and make it function it's not even that! |
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.
If he walks off with a bunch of money, then I consider that a fraud.
Okay, where do I send the check?
Incorrect measurements are not a free energy source.
Mythbusters is a great show.
I call shenanigans.
Great book.
They also once thought the solar system was geocentric...
Oh Lord help us! [running away from thread before the Segway lovers assault you]
"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
"You need magnets the size of Rosie O'Donnell."
But not as fugly.
Thanks! I just ordered two.
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.
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