Throughout the weekend I kept checking the news on the web, looking for any new info on the claims being made by the Irish company Steorn, which claims that it has invented a technology that produced free energy!
By now the term Steorn is number one search term on Technorati.
This morning, the first thing I did was to look in our mailbox to get the newspapers any my copy of the economist to see the Steorn’s ad myself. When an ad in a serious magazine makes claims about a “world with an infinite supply of pure energy. Never having to recharge your phone. Never having to refuel your car” something crazy is going.
The forums on the company site are full of people. There are so many claims that this is a hoax or a Halo 3 viral ad campaign. Other are saying it might be some PR stunt to draw attention to energy issues. The discussion centers around the possibility of breaking the laws of thermodynamics, which would put the whole field of physics into disarray. On the other hand, there are people speculating that the company has found a way to harness some earth related source of energy (magnetism-related discussions abound) and that no laws of physics are being broken.
The problem is that, apart from the patent filings, there is nothing on the web, or the company’s website, that talks about any scientific or technology details. There’s basically just the claim of ‘free energy’ told in a professionally produced video featuring the company’s CEO and marketing director.
As I write this, almost 15,000 people have registered to receive the results of the challenge that the company has issued to the science community to test their technology.
By the way, and as I have stated in an earlier post, this has nothing to do with the “Exogen” video on YouTube. The claimed technology of Steorn seems to be magnet based, and not something that breaks water into H and O2 (what’s up with THAT anyway).
Here are some link if you are interested to follow the news on this:
Yahoo News
Google News
Del.icio.us
Digg (RSS feed)
The company is already being profiled on Wikipedia
Comments
5 responses to “Steorn ‘free energy’ controversy: holding our breath for what exactly??”
i will be very interested to see where this leads. keep us posted on your findings!
Imagine the possibilities it opens if this is true??!!
http://www.steornpower.com has a tun of new news about steorn
As for Steorn not giving any details about their technology, I know of few inventors who have ploughed their own and their investors’ money, plus their “sweat equity” into a project, who would divulge hard-gotten technological details until patents are issued to protect their Intellectual Property. Otherwise cheap labour areas world wide would be making the devices, paying no royalties for the inventors’ and investors’ inputs, and cramming them into the U.S. and other wealthier areas of the world with nothing going to the company which developed the stuff.
Well atleast the’re not asking for money