*Imagine.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060818/bs_afp/irelandscienceenergy DUBLIN (AFP) - An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy. The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics. It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars. Steorn issued its challenge through an advertisement in the Economist magazine this week quoting Ireland's Nobel prize-winning author George Bernard Shaw who said that "all great truths begin as blasphemies". Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said they had issued the challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so it can be developed. "What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said. "The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy," he told Ireland's RTE radio. McCarthy said Steorn had not set out to develop the technology, but "it actually fell out of another project we were working on". One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form. McCarthy said a big obstacle to overcome was the disbelief that what they had developed was even possible. "For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said. "But we have been unable to get significant scientific interest in it. We have had scientists come in, test it and, off the record, they are quite happy to admit that it works. "But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said. http://www.steorn.net/frontpage/default.aspx
Look for these guys to disapear, along with their technology (sudden heart attack?) shortly if any of their stuff actually works.
They better release all the details, since it is free, and others will pick it up from there. It also will save their lives. - There is to much money in energy technology involved. For the first it sounds clean and good and if that is so, it would solve many problems at once.
Don't you think it would also cause some problems in the shift....? I like the idea of it...just to note.
Sure they can make free energy, but why can't they make a site that downloads faster than a 56k modem There is nothing free about magnetic energy. Am I missing something? Magnets lose power after time; and thus their energy must be replaced, making this not free. I'm callin' this crap. Personally. Read the forum. Enough people are asking the right questions: http://www.steorn.net/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=621&page=1#Item_0
Yip and they date back well before your beloved nation was founded, imagine that http://understandingscience.ucc.ie/pages/irishscientists.htm
Yeah, I agree. The scientific establishment is going to pounce on these guys like lions. Either that, or they'll simply ignore them. I think the best thing for them to do is distribute the technology over the internet. That will solve the problem.
Exactly. The reason why I believe free energy is possible is because it has been said that anything a person imagines, they can achieve. Energy is all around us, it is just a matter of tapping into it. This story will probably not be on the mainstream news stations.....but we'll see.