The last time I blogged about Steorn was in September 2007. I was getting tired of their story, especially after they failed to demo anything. The company has plunged into almost complete silence. Their web forum remains open. But Steorn’s CEO never posts there anymore. Unbelievable.

Last November I wanted to write a blog post titled: “The web death of Steorn”. I was curios and looked at their traffic graph on Alexa. I never wrote that post. I checked Alexa again today and it tells a sad story of decline after last summer’s peak.

Steorn Alexa Rank

But the reason I am blogging about free energy today is NOT Steorn.

A new claim of a magnetic based perpetual motion machine has emerged. This time in Canada. Meet the Perepiteia. That’s the name given to the machine by its amateur inventor Thane Heins. This is the man..

Thane Heins
(Image from the Toronto Star)
And this is his machine..

Perepiteia

And here is what the Toronto Star, a respectable newspaper, wrote:

Thane Heins is nervous and hopeful. It’s Jan. 24, a Thursday afternoon, and in four days the Ottawa-area native will travel to Boston where he’ll demonstrate an invention that appears – though he doesn’t dare say it – to operate as a perpetual motion machine.

The audience, esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn, could either deflate Heins’ heretical claims or add momentum to a 20-year obsession that has broken up his marriage and lost him custody of his two young daughters.

Zahn is a leading expert on electromagnetic and electronic systems. In a rare move for any reputable academic, he has agreed to give Heins’ creation an open-minded look rather than greet it with outright dismissal.

It’s a pivotal moment. The invention, at its very least, could moderately improve the efficiency of induction motors, used in everything from electric cars to ceiling fans. At best it means a way of tapping the mysterious powers of electromagnetic fields to produce more work out of less effort, seemingly creating electricity from nothing.

Read the full article here.

Now this is interesting. MIT. Reputable academic. Demo. There is nothing weirder than the world of fringe physics. While Steorn, with its big claims, is drowning in a sea of silence, this brings back some excitement into the circus.

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5 responses to “Free energy: bye bye Steorn, hello Perepiteia?”

  1. muhammad arrabi Avatar
    muhammad arrabi

    Dr. Riadh Habash helped him. From the article:

    Cunningham’s boss, OCRI president Jeffrey Dale, helped open doors at the University of Ottawa and make introductions to its dean of engineering. As a result, Heins teamed up last fall with Riadh Habash, a professor at the university’s school of information technology and engineering.

  2. muhammad arrabi Avatar
    muhammad arrabi

    by the way, they demo’ed it to MIT already. here’s more about what happened:
    http://gizmodo.com/353655/perepiteia-perpetual+motion-machine-may-actually-dosomething

    looks good so far.

  3. Achmed Avatar
    Achmed

    I collect some hundred similar innovations. Some of them really turn and moves – unless you try to deduct some useful energy. Bye bye!

  4. inelin Avatar
    inelin

    Generador magnetico energia libre:

    http://inelin.foroportal.es/foro/portal.php

    PD: El problema reside en que ningún proyecto de energía libre que utilice campos magnéticos podrá funcionar si la demostración se publicita en los medios. Los gobiernos que ocultan la energía libre tienen la tecnología para deshabilitar el rendimiento de los campos magneticos en áreas localizadas.