Posted on 07/05/2007 12:11:34 PM PDT by saganite
Orbo Free Energy Demo Has Botched Start Widely publicized pending demo of Steorn's free energy prototype at the Kinetica Museum in London, promised to be streamed live around the world, opens with the device not working and a no-show on the Orbo demo site for first 24+ hours.
LONDON, ENGLAND -- Steorn, an Irish technology development company, announced on July 4th that they would publicly demonstrate a real-life application of their Orbo free energy technology for the first time.
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Steorn's Orbo technology is said to be based on the interaction of magnetic fields, allowing the production of clean, free and constant energy. The company announced that the exhibit on display will demonstrate work being done by the spinning of a clear polycarbonate wheel with no recourse to external energy -- at least not any that is perceivable using present methods of scientific analysis.
The company says that Orbo free energy technology is fully scalable and can be applied to virtually all devices requiring energy, from cellular phones to cars.
Botched Start Due to Technical Difficulties
A company press release dated July 4th announced that people from around the world would be able to view the exhibit via live web cams, and that they would be able to select different camera angles and thus be able to view the exhibit from various positions.
The demonstration was originally announced to begin at 6:00 pm Eastern Time, July 4 in the Kinetica Museum gallery of London, but "due to slight technical difficulties", the publication of their real-time streaming was postponed to July 5th.
A person, apparently in the know, reported to the Steorn forum:
"...they ran into some technical issues, firstly a problem with the bearings, which was fixed once identified. The next issue appears to be an environmental issue. We think possibly the temperature from the lighting system in the immediate area, but this has to be further assessed in the morning."
As of 6:00 am Eastern, July 5th, 24 hours after it was supposed to air, the officially designated demonstration link (http://steorn.com/orbo/demo) had been pulling up blank, or with a "not authorized" error message. This could be due to the site not being able to handle the high volume of traffic being sent there from a fair number of popular news services that have carried the story, including Wired, Slashdot, EnGadget, Geekzone, RTE News, Silicon Republic, Belfast Telegraph, Irish Times, EarthTimes, Inquirer, and Product Reviews.
This delayed start has resulted in a barrage of predictably negative comments posted on these various news and discussion sites.
http://www.steorn.com/orbo/demo/demo.html provides an animated view of the room, showing the angles of the respective cameras. Camera one gives the best shot, straight on. Camera 2 looks straight down from the ceiling.
Camera Angle 1:
As of July 5, 2007; 17:30 pm London Time, the motor demonstration did not show any motion.
Later (e.g. as of at least 14:15 pm London time, 10:15 am Eastern), the site pulled up, with the following opening notice:
"We are experiencing some technical difficulties with the demo unit in London. Our initial assessment indicates that this is probably due to the intense heat from the camera lighting. We have commenced a technical assessment and will provide an update later today. As a consequence, Kinetica will not be open to the public today (5th July). We apologise for this delay and appreciate your patience."
According to the museum web page announcing the Orbo demo:
The Museum opens at 11AM [London] on Thursday 5th July.
'Orbo' can also be watched via a 24 hr live stream beginning on 5th July by clicking on the Orbo banner located on Kinetica's home page or clicking here.
Visit 'Orbo' at Kinetica Museum from 5th - 13th July, 11am - 6pm.
The 4th of July Steorn press release originally stated:
The exhibition at the Kinetica Museum, in Spitalfields Market, East London, will be open for a private view only today but will be open to the public from every day from 11am to 7pm, Thursday 5th July until Friday 13th July inclusive, when the exhibition will close. Admission is free and the museum is based at SP2 Pavilion, Spitalfields Market, London E1 6AA.
This botched start is a serious setback for Steorn, who had hoped to prove so many skeptics wrong, but who are now gloating with words to the effect, "who ever expected anything but this?"
At least with the cameras now accessible, the curiosity factor returns. The simple demo device resembles the Perendev magnet motor, a video of which has been seen by probably several million people.
Hopefully for Steorn, they will have the thing running in time for Al Gore’s Live Earth concert on July 7th, which is expected to be viewed by as many as two billion people around the world, hosted in 10,000 locations, in addition to the Internet. That would certainly reverse their bad luck, if they could attain favorable mention during that environmentalist rally.
Steorn's Challenge to the Scientific Community
On 18th August 2006, Steorn placed an advertisement in The Economist to attract the attention of the world's leading scientists working in the field of experimental physics. The advertisement issued a challenge to the world's scientific community to step forward and prove its claims wrong.
Several thousand scientists stepped forward to take the challenge, but only 22 were appointed to test Steorn's claims. The review process began in January 2007 and is still ongoing. Steorn will publish the results of the process following its completion.
In the press release, Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, commented: "We've decided to demonstrate our Orbo technology in a global and public forum to raise greater awareness amongst the product development community. We want to give equal access to developers so they can use this technology to power products that will bring benefits to everyone. Ultimately, it's also a reminder to the world that this free energy technology is being validated and will definitely happen.
"We expect the vast majority of our audience to view the exhibit online, but rather than just stream a demonstration of the technology from an undisclosed location, we purposely decided to have a tangible working device that people could come and physically see for themselves."
There’s no such thing a “free energy”..........not even in Quantum land..........
Yoda: “holding my breath, I am not.”
Translation, couldn't make enough smoke and then had a problem with the mirrors.
The evil energy companies have suppressed all sources of clean and free energy — so that they can continue to profiteer from peddling their noxious wares. That’s why we’re all gonna die — starting with the polar bears, who are already homeless.
Gotta run — need to adjust my hat, the tinfoil is pinching.
Translation, couldn’t make enough smoke and then had a problem with the mirrors.
LOL! I expect them to pull the exhibit soon with vague explanations about technical difficulties associated with the conditions not being right but “if you want to contribute to our company’s efforts yada yada yada”.
Hey, cold fusion works! They just changed the name to protect the innocent.
I see a pattern here. The device is all set up, the scientists and press are assembled to verify the authenticity of the device, and the device does not work. Then you never hear a thing about it again.
Hmmmmm....a motor driven not by fossil fuels, but electro-magnetic energy? Brilliant!! I shall dub it, "The Electric Motor"!
Twenty-two scientists soon to be smeared as "tools of the oil industry".
Yeah but this electromagnetic energy is free. It comes from the time space continuum, or something.
TRANSLATION: Our free-energy device, which operates on energy contained in its immediate surroundings, quit working because there's too much energy in its immediate surroundings.
” intense heat from the camera lighting. ‘
We wish to thank the vast audience of potential investors in our energy machine for their patience with regards to our technical problems of July 5.
The good news is that the problem of intensive, overly thermal lighting has been solved and the apparatus is operating within expected parameters.
The problem’s solution was approached by turning out all the lights in the display room. When this did not work, we moved the apparatus into a pitch black storage room and closed the door.
The energy machine’s inventor, Joseph Smith XIV, locked inside the room with his groundbreaking invention, assures us by calling through the heavy metal door that the wheel is turning.
This stunning vindication of Orbo technology sets in motion authorization of the sale of stakes in the company. Potential investors are invited to submit nonrefundable deposits equal to half the value of interest they intend to take in the company.
Certified cheques may be posted to Walkovia Banque, Nigeria.
By George, I think you understand! It’s a perpetual money making device.
Brilliant!
can u say SCAM?
Yes I can. And you need to get back down below the Mason Dixon.
Great, now people are going to be using more than their share of free energy.
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