Free Energy?


via http://www.alistreview.com/2006/08/steorn_gets_the_blogosphere_bu.html:

Steorn, an Irish technology company, has claimed to have developed “a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy.”  They issued a challenge for scientists to test the technology and more than 1300 have taken the bait.

From the website:

Steorn is making three claims for its technology:

  1. The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%.
  2. The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts.
  3. There is no identifiable environmental source of the energy (as might be witnessed by a cooling of ambient air temperature).

The sum of these claims is that our technology creates free energy.

If it is true, what a leap forward. I have the feeling this is just a big hoax 
The Article:

Scientists flock to test ‘free energy’ discovery

David Smith
Sunday August 20, 2006
The Observer

A man who claims to have developed a free energy technology which could power everything from mobile phones to cars has received more than 400 applications from scientists to test it.

Sean McCarthy says that no one was more sceptical than he when Steorn, his small hi-tech firm in Dublin, hit upon a way of generating clean, free and constant energy from the interaction of magnetic fields. ‘It wasn’t so much a Eureka moment as a get-back-in-there-and-check-your-instruments moment, although in far more colourful language,’ said McCarthy. But when he attempted to share his findings, he says, scientists either put the phone down on him or refused to endorse him publicly in case they damaged their academic reputations. So last week he took out a full-page advert in the Economist magazine, challenging the scientific community to examine his technology.

McCarthy claims it provides five times the amount of energy a mobile phone battery generates for the same size, and does not have to be recharged. Within 36 hours of his advert appearing he had been contacted by 420 scientists in Europe, America and Australia, and a further 4,606 people had registered to receive the results.

And now, the video…

8 comments

  1. Codiac

    Bah.

    Anyone who purports to have broken the laws of thermodynamics automatically loses all credibility with me.

    If it turns out I am mistaken, I will, of course, retract that statement. However…

    If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s usually a duck.

    Quack, quack.

  2. Codiac

    Okay, after having watched the video, I’m gonna have to say that there’s an energy source that’s being tapped somewhere that someone is missing in their analysis of this process. If I had to guess, I’d go with Occam’s Razor and say that they aren’t factoring in the energy required to generate and maintain the magnetic fields used to propel the particle. A variation on a mistake that has often left many engineering and physics students sitting around, scratching their heads, and saying, “WTF am I missing here?!”

  3. True, as the law of thermodynamics dictates that energy is neither lost nor gained, that being said one must realize that there are other factors that remove energy from a semi-closed system (exa heat or friction). With that being said I would have to agree with Codiac on that one, there is no such thing as ‘free’ energy. But with the introduction of M theory (basicly its the unified wave theory) I wonder what else is out there, I didn’t even expect that such a thing could have been accomplished at this state.

  4. Codiac

    Ummm….

    Unified wave theory is possible. It’s just using an equation complex enough to model “everything” all at once. It will include the laws of thermodynamics.

    This is, quite simply, a case where they’re getting energy from somewhere other than what they’re measuring or their equations are wrong. Those are the only two possible alternatives.

    Well, other than God himself stepping in. I won’t get into that, though.

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