Steorn Hoax, Storn Hoax
Steorn Hoax, Storn Hoax? There has been a lot of news about "Free Energy" by a company called Steorn. Is this a Hoax or real? Steorn Ltd. is a company based in Ireland that claims to have developed a "free energy technology". In August 2006 Steorn placed a full-page advertisement in "The Economist", issuing a challenge to scientists to review their invention, which appears to be a perpetual motion machine. Steorn's technology is patent pending (patent number WO 2006/035419 (2006). Retrieved on 2006-08-27
The company director McCarthy says "We have to fight public opinion, we have to fight the scientific community and we have to fight the energy industry. We couldn't pick a worse battleground."
The more I think about this I am of two minds:
1. These guys really do think they've succeeded in breaking the laws of thermodynamics.
2. Recall that Steorn is a former e-business company that saw its market vanish during the dot.com bust. It stands to reason that Steorn has re-tooled as a Web marketing company, and is using the "free energy" promotion as a platform to show future clients how it can leverage print advertising and a slick Web site to promote their products and ideas. If so, it's a pretty brilliant strategy.
The more I think of it, I think it's only a hoax. At this time, when energy prices are going higher and higher, Steorn couldn't have picked a better time to try what they are trying. Deep in my heart, I hope these guys have really done something smart. It will surely help our "little" earth. Even terrorism may stop!
But honestly, what modern physics has to say about the math is very simple, energy-in=energy-out. There's no overtly complex maths involved for calculating magnetic repulsion and attraction forces... You simply find the constants and divide them by the square of the distance... As for equations on the "interaction of magnetic fields" Steorn has been vague enough that no one really knows exactly what they're talking about...
I have this strange feeling, it will all end up as a famous "Steorn Hoax", or "Storn Hoax"!
If you consider that people have attempted to create a 'Perpetual Motion Machine' and always have failed. Most of the time the people showing one of them had working rigs etcetc. Every single time they have been shown to be a fraud.
From that angle it is EXTREMELY unlikely that steorn has stumbled upon a true working one, especially since it violates the basic understanding we have of energy (Which, granted, is not very much), namely, the conservation of it.
I hope it is not a measurement error, fraud or anything, and genuine. But I am very sceptical and hopeful too. We'll have to wait and watch if this turns out to be a "Steorn Hoax" or "Storn Hoax", how long I don't know. You say...
The company director McCarthy says "We have to fight public opinion, we have to fight the scientific community and we have to fight the energy industry. We couldn't pick a worse battleground."
The more I think about this I am of two minds:
1. These guys really do think they've succeeded in breaking the laws of thermodynamics.
2. Recall that Steorn is a former e-business company that saw its market vanish during the dot.com bust. It stands to reason that Steorn has re-tooled as a Web marketing company, and is using the "free energy" promotion as a platform to show future clients how it can leverage print advertising and a slick Web site to promote their products and ideas. If so, it's a pretty brilliant strategy.
The more I think of it, I think it's only a hoax. At this time, when energy prices are going higher and higher, Steorn couldn't have picked a better time to try what they are trying. Deep in my heart, I hope these guys have really done something smart. It will surely help our "little" earth. Even terrorism may stop!
But honestly, what modern physics has to say about the math is very simple, energy-in=energy-out. There's no overtly complex maths involved for calculating magnetic repulsion and attraction forces... You simply find the constants and divide them by the square of the distance... As for equations on the "interaction of magnetic fields" Steorn has been vague enough that no one really knows exactly what they're talking about...
I have this strange feeling, it will all end up as a famous "Steorn Hoax", or "Storn Hoax"!
If you consider that people have attempted to create a 'Perpetual Motion Machine' and always have failed. Most of the time the people showing one of them had working rigs etcetc. Every single time they have been shown to be a fraud.
From that angle it is EXTREMELY unlikely that steorn has stumbled upon a true working one, especially since it violates the basic understanding we have of energy (Which, granted, is not very much), namely, the conservation of it.
I hope it is not a measurement error, fraud or anything, and genuine. But I am very sceptical and hopeful too. We'll have to wait and watch if this turns out to be a "Steorn Hoax" or "Storn Hoax", how long I don't know. You say...
posted by Arun at 11:29 AM
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