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Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by Areometer, Aug 20, 2006.

  1. Areometer

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    DUBLIN (AFP) - An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy.

    The company, Steorn, 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.

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  2. dragonfly

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    Wait, so does this mean that you gain energy from nothing? Or don't you need something to create the energy from, as in E=mc**2?

    Are they saying they've defied Einstein? Or what???
     
    #2 dragonfly, Aug 21, 2006
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    From their web site:

    Steorn is making three claims for its technology:
    1. The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%.
    2. The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts.
    3. There is no identifiable environmental source of the energy (as might be witnessed by a cooling of ambient air temperature).
    The sum of these claims is that our technology creates free energy.

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    #3 Bill Merchant, Aug 21, 2006
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    Wow. I guess that settles it. Peat smoke really does have psychoactive properties.
     
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    *yawn*
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    they're goin' down.
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    Here's the CEO of Steorn, Sean McCarthy, with a test rig. [attachmentid=4560]
     
    #6 Bill Merchant, Aug 21, 2006
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    That's a bong. It explains everything.
     
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    If they're right, you lot will all end up with egg on your faces. Imagine if someone did invent an amazing new technology and no-one used it because they didn't think it was possible...

    ;)

    Just because they don't KNOW where the energy is coming from, doesn't mean it's coming from somewhere, does it? Might be something completely undiscovered or untapped - like the fabled zero-point energy for instance.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(molgrips @ Aug 21 2006, 02:35 AM) [snapback]306608[/snapback]</div>
    It's so obviously a publicity stunt / viral marketing campaign.

    A few choice comments from http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/steorn-...f-laws-of-ther/

    "I think the Irish invention is known as Guiness. When people consume too much they believe they have infinte energy, and when they wake up in the morning they don't remember spending any energy at all"

    "its simple they have cats that have buttered toast on thier backs. you then drop said cat into a static electricity harnessing gizmo, the cat spins because toast lands butter down and cats land on their feet, and bingo they spin in a clean and infinite energy paradox."
     
    #9 priusenvy, Aug 21, 2006
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Aug 21 2006, 05:23 AM) [snapback]306616[/snapback]</div>
    I can vouch for that.

    I think

    The empty Guinness cans are proof, right?
     
    #10 jayman, Aug 21, 2006
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    What about friction?
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Cameron @ Aug 25 2006, 02:53 PM) [snapback]309510[/snapback]</div>
    Something rubbing you the wrong way?
     
    #12 Bill Merchant, Aug 25, 2006
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    There is no freakin' way this really is what they claim; no American company has bought them, burned the patent, and shredded all existing models.
     
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    Hi All,

    Energy will be conserved. The problem here is that they do not understand that. A technology that interacts with the Earth's magnetic field to generate energy gets the energy from the where the magnetic field gets its energy. Which is the rotation of the earth's molten metalic core, which is friction coupled to the rotation of the earth. So, its plausible if this technology does work, and was deployed, it could result in the despining of the earth. Which would have catastrophic enviormental consequences.
     
    #14 donee, Aug 27, 2006
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    I don't think they're using the Earth's magnetic field to do this.
     
    #15 dragonfly, Aug 27, 2006
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