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.
That would be very interesting to see.
You hit the nail on the head. I can make an argument that this is a scam without knowing anything about physics.
If they truly had invented a free-energy machine, they would have patented it and then published the theoretical work and a description of the machine's construction. A number of scientists around the world would then undertake to duplicate their findings and validate them.
Any other course of action points to a scam. It's very likely these people are simply trying to create a media buzz which they hope will translate into funding.
The atmosphere and the earth make up the two ends of a giant capacitor; how to release its store?
We did tilt them. One magnet would sneak up behind the other and get close enough to get caught on the repulsion. It would push the blades around again.
I'm just a homeschooling mom and not an engineer. All I know is it worked and I gave the kids an A.
What if it works and they succeed in tapping it and then down the road, we suck the universe dry; what do we do then, smart guy?
"This is absolute bullcrap. It's an accepted and proveable Gaussian theory that the line integral around any closed surface is 0. If this guy thinks he can get energy out of that, he's fooling himself. Nice try though."
Fantastic. No fly to Ireland and debunk it. You can pick up some fine Guiness while you are there.
Personally, Guiness is Gaelic for Genius, so for me, I believe my Irish brothers may be on to something.
Don't worry, they just found a 'black-hole' rich field in the Arcturus-beta Al-Wahibi nebula. They are going to point their p-tunnel magnetons there. Estimated to last 200 yrs at current rate of consumption.
Only need to clear it with their head scientist, Dr. Mullah Allah ben-Katoosk
Yes, but without starving something else. Like taking a pinch of energy from here, a pinch from there, without disrupting matter to the point where it changes it's basic form.
I wish I knew more about this stuff. I find it all fascinating. I love these threads.
Does Al Gore know?
Remember the planet is moving in its assigned orbit as well. You end up adding part of the velocity of the planet to your spacecraft as you do the flyby. However, you cannot get something for nothing. The Planet loses the same energy that was gained by the spacecraft. (Albeit imperceptible)
If they are ready for peer review then I think they just might have something here.
Actually, that device fails in a vacuum. But it works in very low pressure bulbs.
It smells like they are looking for investors more than scientific approval. "If it seems to good to be true it probably is."
What the heck bump.
"Exxon hit squads will be coming after this guy."
I would not think that rotation would be a factor. The probe should not get so close that it is in the atmosphere or it would lose the momentum it had and burn up as well. If the probe is not in the atmosphere, I don't see how rotation would effect it.
Best excuse for a beer I've heard outside of my AA meetings. "It was for science!"
Keep your eye on this one. ; )
yer right..it is the air molecules that give it momentum.
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