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Posted August 18th 2006 1:45PM
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 The Steorn Company of Ireland, who for many years has developed technology to help combat counterfeiting and fraud in the plastic card and optical disc industries, has recently announced that they've invented a method for creating free energy with no emissions. Never-mind the fact that this claim undermines hundreds of years of scientific study and defies the laws of thermodynamics, which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, and that putting energy into a system will always result in a loss in potential output.The radical claim of free energy is presented with a challenge, issued in an ad in the Economist, to the scientific community. Steorm is asking for 12 of the finest scientists in the field of experimental physics to come forward and test their claims of infinite free energy. Once their technology isn't disproved - and they obviously believe that it won't be disproved - they'll begin licensing it to the world's energy companies and charitably freely licensing it for rural water purification and electricity generation in impoverished areas. If this is for real then Steorm has rewritten fundamental physics as we know it and potentially solved all of the worlds energy problems. The odds are high that it is some kind of hoax, we'll just have to wait and see if Steorm can prove us all wrong and change science forever. Source - Engadget |
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Posted August 18th 2006 11:41PM
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GeneralPimp
I think it is BS, but it would be pretty sweet if it did work. If so, I don't believe the energy would necessarily come from nothing. It probably would be getting it from some source we don't know about yet.
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Posted August 20th 2006 11:07AM
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Machismo111
That was 5 minutes of drama and 20 seconds of "science". And when they did decide to tease us with a hint of their technology, it was with an analogy of 'Imagine walking up a hill, then walking back down, and getting energy'. For some reason I think they'll have to do better than that to convince scientists to waste their time.
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Don't Forget...
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Posted August 20th 2006 4:59PM
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...There was an animation of a circle of magnets. haha I think everyone has had that idea of creating a circle of magnets to turn a motor. Oh well. It was dramatic.
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