There is a company from Ireland called Steorn that has placed an ad in The Economist magazine that challenges the scientific community to analyze a new technology. This is what Steorn claims.
Steorn’s technology produces free, clean and constant energy. This provides a significant range of benefits, from the convenience of never having to refuel your car or recharge your mobile phone, to a genuine solution to the need for zero emission energy production.
The claim goes against a basic rule of physics that is energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
If this is a hoax, it is a very elaborate one. If it is for real, it changes our collective reality.
I had a hard time with seventh grade science so I cannot be a judge on that basis.
My first thought was why someone who had this information would not approach the scientific community in a less public way. In the slick five minute video available on the Steorn website the C.E.O. Sean McCarthy said that this would take too much time and that would be bad business. There seems to be an almost sinister implication as McCarthy says “we have to fight public opinion, the scientific community and we have to fight the energy industry”. We have all heard stories about the little guy inventor who was crushed by big business because his product was not in their best interest.
One thing that I find interesting is that on the Steorn website they have included a forum section. There are opinions from people that have obvious knowledge of physics and others who think it is a promotion for X-Box. The company does not seem to be policing the posts for content and it is fascinating to look at.
Brave new world or brave new marketing?
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Stephanie Vann wrote,
Hmm… it sounds like the sort of thing I would be sceptical about. If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Link | August 21st, 2006 at 4:02 am