[extropy-chat] curious over-unity claim

[Damien Broderick]

hey, stop looking at me like that, I just work here


<http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=312047&rel_no=1&back_url=>Irish 
Scientific Firm Challenges Skeptics to Prove Them Wrong About 'Free Energy'
GREGORY DAIGLE - Ohmy News.com


Dublin-based technology risk management company, Steorn, has 
challenged the scientific community to prove it wrong. In an 
advertisement found in the most recent issue of The Economist it has 
challenged scientists and engineers to test the firm's free-energy 
technology and publish the findings. The challenge appears real, but 
is the technology?

Steorn states that from all the scientists who accept their 
challenge, twelve will be invited to take part in a rigorous testing 
exercise to prove (or disprove) that Steorn's technology creates 
free-energy (also known as over-unity). The results will be published 
worldwide.

According to Steorn the technology is based on the interaction of 
magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant 
energy. The technology can be scaled to virtually all devices 
requiring energy, from cellular phones to cars.

Assuming their claims can be validated, Steorn intends to license its 
technology to organizations within the energy sector. It will allow 
use of its technology royalty-free for certain purposes including 
water and rural electrification projects in Third World countries.

The Challenge

Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, has said that he posted this challenge 
in the pages of The Economist to catch the attention of academicians, 
scientists and researchers. However, his choice of this eminent and 
widely read business publication is clearly gauged to catch the eye 
of business institutions and potentially -- funders.

It is rare that such a "throwing down the gauntlet" occurs in so 
public a forum. But Steorn knows that its claims will encounter 
substantial cynicism as it goes against a basic principle of physics: 
the conservation of energy. So its defense is to begin with a bold offense.

Patents filed by Steorn could also encounter the skepticism of 
various patent offices, which will not grant patents for "perpetual 
motion" machines. So Steorn has not patented their core technology. 
Rather, they have filed a sequence of patents which describe various 
aspects of the technology but not its overall effects. One such 
patent suggests an arrangement of magnets and a magnetic shield on a 
linear slide to act as a low-energy actuator switch turning the 
magnetic fields on and off.

If verified then this device would be a remarkable achievement. If 
not, it joins a long list of failed or delayed free-energy devices 
including other magnetic shield devices and the Motionless 
Electromagnetic Generator (MEG), reportedly still in "engineering 
development" after many years of burning through funding capital.
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<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1854305,00.html>Scientists 
Flock to Test 'Free Energy' Discovery
DAVID SMITH - The Observer (U.K.)


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.
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