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  • Steorn launches new website and names its technology Orbo

    Regular readers of 360east know that I have been following the new of a Steorn, an Irish company that claims to have invented a magnetic technology that produces free energy. While the story has disappeared from mainstream media, the company’s web forums are abuzz with ardent believers in the company, skeptical detractors as well as…

  • Steorn free energy update: A presentation, and a Guardian article

    Yesterday and today there was a bit of an upsurge in news about Steorn, the company that claims it invented a magnetic-based technology that can produce energy from nothing. Yesterday, Steorn CEO Sean McCarthy gave a presentation about his company’s technology in the London Kinetica Museum. No video is available of the talk he gave…

  • Steorn finalizes selection of scientific jury to test ‘free energy’ technology News | Steorn

    The story of Steorn continues. The Irish company has now announced that it has selected a high calibre scientific jury to test its claim of a magnetic device that produces energy for free (basically from thin air). I bored my readers with this story earlier. But for me this claim, and the way it was…

  • Steorn update: jury selection process completed News | Steorn

    We haven’t heard much from Steorn lately. Yesterday they issued a press release with an update on the selection process of scientists, who are supposed to test the validity of the company’s ‘free energy’ technology: News | Steorn Dublin, 10th November 2006: Steorn, the technology development company, has announced that it has completed its selection…

  • Steorn free energy update: jury to be selected soon, as company’s forums rage on!

    I am still following the Steorn free energy story, despite its disappearance of the media radar screen. The company’s discussion forums have erupted again after a period of quiet. This has been fueled by Steorn’s recent posting of various FAQs. The discussion on the forums are heated. An interesting aspect of the the forums is…

  • Skynews interview with Steorn shows glimpse of their technology

    It’s not more than a few shots of stop and go mechanical action, but it’s the first time that the technology (or let’s say the ‘claimed’ technology) is shown on video. A longer interview with Sean MacCarthy with SkyNews is available here. One of the most interesting statements Sean makes is that the reaction by…

  • Steorn story makes Fox News

    As the debate on the Steorn free energy rages on (mainly on the company’s own discussion forum), the story has not, so far made it very big on global news channels. But Tuesday, Fox News had a live interview with Sean MacCarthy, CEO of Steorn. So the story is not dead yet. The apparent sincerity…

  • Steorn: magnets, magic and obsession

    This evening, I was playing with my son. We had four of these elongated egg-shaped magnets in our hands and we were talking about magnetism. To an 8 year old kid, and to an adult too, magnets are something magical. While all magnetic materials just fall to the ground, two magnets interact with each other…

  • Steorn CEO: Manufacturing cost of free energy device for cell phones expected to be comparable to current technology

    A live chat with Sean McCarthy is still going on. One question, I submitted to the chat, about expected cost, was answered so far. I asked about the cost of a cell phone powering device based on the technology. McCarthy said that he expects the cost to be close to current technologies. It is worth…

  • Steorn to hold live chat today, Thursday (15:00 British Time)

    Steorn, the Irish company that claims it invented a ‘free energy’ technology, will be holding was supposed to hold live chat in a short while (Noon British Standard Time). The company has just announced a delay till 15:00 BST (That’s 5pm local Amman time) Hi Folks, Due to the unavailability of our management team, we…

  • More news around the Steorn energy controversy

    Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, with a test rig during development. This is not part of the design to be tested by the scientific jury. Source: Steorn.com As Monday progressed, more news organizations came out with stories about the Steorn challenge: Wired News “Ultimately the aim is so large, that the people involved, and the…

  • Steorn ‘free energy’ controversy: holding our breath for what exactly??

    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…