You're right on!
Their patent application: LOW ENERGY MAGNETIC ACTUATOR
"The company is currently engaged in the development of its own proprietary battery substitution technology."
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Posted on 08/18/2006 7:37:36 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
An Irish company threw down the gauntlet on Friday to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy.
The company, Steorn (http://www.steorn.net), says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics.
It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars.
Steorn issued its challenge through an advertisement in the Economist magazine this week quoting Ireland's Nobel prize-winning author George Bernard Shaw who said that "all great truths begin as blasphemies".
Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said they had issued the challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so it can be developed.
"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.
"The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy," he told Ireland's RTE radio.
McCarthy said Steorn had not set out to develop the technology, but "it actually fell out of another project we were working on".
One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.
McCarthy said a big obstacle to overcome was the disbelief that what they had developed was even possible.
"For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.
"But we have been unable to get significant scientific interest in it. We have had scientists come in, test it and, off the record, they are quite happy to admit that it works.
"But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said.
Nope. The orbital period of the planet you are using.
It depends on how it is slowed. This is not a scalar.
The bottom line is that equilibrium must be obtained to maintain a stable orbit. So if the orbital tangential speed is decreased without changing any other factors, the corresponding centrifugal acceleration will be lower. Given that the masses of the two bodies (sun and planet) have not changed the gravitational force has not changed, so the planet will 'fall' towards the sun.
It is why skylab is no longer intact. It slowed down. Came home.
Indeed!
Note, a green Ar/Ion laser spins mine like crazy. :-)
No. But I can imagine the plot. ;o)
The far left will not be happy.
Agreed. Was being a bit silly with my post. Should have qualified that.
Reminds me of Joseph Newman...saw him on Johnny Carson many, many years ago...his perpetual motion machine. http://www.josephnewman.com/
BTW, as you impart energy into a satellite to lift it to a higher orbit, the satellite's velocity decreases.
Pay no attention to these Irish pretenders. In my la-BOR-a-tory, I'm working on a device that is not only a perpetual motion machine, but it also travels faster than light, enables time-travel, and it seems to overcome gravity as well (still studying that angle). But it only works if you've been taking my Eternal Life Elixirtm, which is the real opportunity for investors.
I understand your point, but if these guys, while in the process of doing something else, observed a phenomena that they were not expecting, that defies the laws of physics as we know them, and they cannot explain it, and it is reproducible; is it not worthy of study?
I'm sure it does. I don't know how many times I've heard, "So and so has looked at this and they think it's a valid process.", so I understand the reluctance to consider these contraptions. What bothers me is to enter these threads and watch how many people completely dismiss a proces knowing absolutely nothing about it.
I think I aluded to this earlier, I think 99.99999999% of these things are bogus. I'm just not sure we should dismiss that 0.000000001% or even give the appearance of it.
Thanks for the response.
Perpetual Motion Breakthrough!
I have one of those little rotating thingies. They're powered by evil spirits.
Why are they bothering Physicists? It's not Scientists generally that are in control of venture capital money. If this is factual Investors will pony up the money for the further development. Has a patent been applied for on this process?
I should also add, after further review of their website, that they are willing to pay the direct costs associated with the review/validation process. This appears to be a legit, existing company that does work in other fields.
The scientists are to validate the technology. They don't appear to be asking for money up front and are going to pay the direct costs for the validation. If it proves out they will license it to others to develop.
They also claim that thay have a patent pending on the technology.
EXACTLY!!!
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