Free energy' device to be revealed

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Wednesday, 4 July 2007 12:24

An Irish company will today reveal controversial technology that allegedly defies basic laws of physics to produce free power.

Steorn, which is based in Dublin, claims to have discovered a method of creating clean, constant energy, which it claims could end the global fuel crisis.

Called Orbo technology, it is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and has yet to be conclusively proven.

Last year, Steorn placed an advertisement in the Economist magazine and challenged the world's scientists to test its claims.

The company picked 22 of the world's leading scientists from Europe and the US for the review, which started in January and is not expected to be completed before the end of the year.

Steorn is contractually obliged to publish whatever the scientists conclude in full.

Today the invention will go on public display for the first time with a live working demonstration to be streamed on the internet from 6pm tonight.

Steorn Chief Executive Sean McCarthy has said the demonstration will involve a 'very simplified version' of the technology and it will be open to the public from Thursday 5 July to Friday 13 July at the Kinetica Museum at Spitalfields Market in London.

Sceptics can view the device lifting a weight from four different camera angles online.

Mr McCarthy said the company had decided against using the technology to illuminate a light-bulb as the use of wires would attract further suspicion from a scientific community that has already dismissed the device.

The company stumbled upon the technology while working with wind turbines to power remote surveillance CCTV cameras for ATM.

Steorn claims the so-called free energy would be able to power anything from mobile phones to cars, providing a potential solution to the global energy crisis.

Mr McCarthy revealed that if the technology is validated in scientific tests, the company plans to licence it over the internet to any company who wants it for 'a very small fee'.

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If it really is that revolutionary and actually works, they won't be needing a lot of investment money to prove its worth. Since that's really what most of the perpetual motion schemes were about, wealth transference from the marks into the perps pocket.

Yeah, if it was real, they should have put up the plans a while ago, and charged a small amount for them.

If it didn't work, no problem, they join the ranks, if it did, they will change the entire planet.

And it's not as if they want to be seen with pie on their face if it failed, they have put themselves into the media.

Basically, they want money from investors, but have nothing to show for it, and consistently fail to show proof.

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Well I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news but this is a massive elaborate hoax set up to draw attention to the opening of an art museum in London.

Perhaps the aim of it was to draw a crowd of people into the museum that normally wouldn't go to an opening, perhaps all the publicity and attention that this thing has gotten is also a part of the art project.

First of all, I read this article which said that it could be an art project, and that Steron's office is registered to the same address as a marketing company.

Here is the web site of said marketing company.

Secondly, I decided to research the Kinetica Museum, and the web site clearly states that it is an art museum, which is also backed up by the fact that all the sponsors have something to do with art.

Also consider the fact that the unit itself is encased in clear Perspex with a cog in the middle of it that spins around. This will be installed in the middle of an art museum that specialises in installation art.

So folks, I am 99% sure that this is a hoax and I can imagine that there are going to be a lot of disappointed people out there (including me).

Bravo to whoever pulled this off because you certainly got a lot of attention.

I really do hope that I am wrong here but this really is too good to be true.

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Well I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news but [...]

So folks, I am 99% sure that this is a hoax and I can imagine that there are going to be a lot of disappointed people out there (including me).

Bravo to whoever pulled this off because you certainly got a lot of attention.

I really do hope that I am wrong here but this really is too good to be true.

Not even surprising

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Perpetual motion machine hits 'technical' snag

The planned demonstration of a device touted as being able to generate free power using the Earth's magnetic field has been put on hold after "technical difficulties".

Irish company Steorn claims that its Orbo machine will produce free, clean power to electrical generators.

The firm took out a full page advert in The Economist last year asking scientists to test its invention.

Steorn had planned a week-long demonstration of the technology at London's Kinetica Museum yesterday.

"We are experiencing some technical difficulties with the demo unit in London," said the company in a statement.

"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 [5 July]. We apologise for this delay and appreciate your patience."

If the Orbo device lives up to the company's claims, it would violate the law of energy conservation which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed but migrates to different forms.

Steorn claims that power is generated using "time variant magneto-mechanical interactions" that occur naturally.

Orbo's efficacy has been greeted with worldwide scepticism. The panel of experts volunteering to study the technology are not due to report until the end of this year.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2193572/...on-machine-hits

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I agree, our interpretation of the world might not be correct, there are probably zillions of things happening right now that we cant (and may never ever) see. It would not surprise me that if a discovery did come one day that might change our textbooks.

That's also what is leading me to believe that it is an artwork, because we have people now questioning their perception of reality. It's a very "Artist" kind of thing to do.

I think that something as significant as this would probably be handled differently to how Orbo is.

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What if the basic laws of physics are wrong? It's big-headed to think everything we know is right.

Remember, we used to think that until the 1900s...

They are -- and you are quite right.

The accepted 'Laws' are filtered thru our Human beliefs, and the physical senses, which are lovely liars. ;)

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