FREE ENERGY?!??!!1

HamelinHamelin
edited July 18 in For SCIENCE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1858134,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1

http://www.steorn.com/

World changing discovery? Elaborate hoax? Gigantic prank?

Either way, the forums on the company's web page and all the arguing about it are fantastic. It'd be great if these guys weren't full of bunk, but it sounds too good to be true.

Comments

  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited August 2006
    I can't get to the guardian site and the company's homepage just seems like your standard online scam. The language used is just evasive enough to make me think of the info-mercial wher the guy claims his ball of ionized water uses quantum physics to clean your laundry. Is there any actual information about the "technology" on the other page?

    EDIT: The first one finally opened, I'll read it now.
    DOUBLE EDIT: Read, and all I can say is; That's not an original idea. Even I've had that idea (if I understand that they're basically just using the push of magnets to help a wheel turn, like a windmill but with pushing and pulling magnets instead). I don't know enough about how they're testing it to say whether or not they have some fundamental flaw that they keep reproducing, but I'm pretty sure this has been explored enough that I'm sceptical.
  • jcjc
    edited August 2006
    Perpetual motion, huh?

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    Well, good luck with all that.
  • mjc0961mjc0961
    edited August 2006
    Guess we'll have to see how their challenge turns out.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited August 2006
    As Behemoth said, I would be surprised if in this day and age the idea of utilizing magnets like that has never been researched and tried.

    I doubt it will result in anything, but let's wait and see.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited August 2006
    Do you remember that awful feeling as a child on Christmas Day when Santa left you the toy you wanted . . . without any batteries?
    -No, not frankly.
    -anyway, I agree that this has most likely been tried before.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited August 2006
    Someone should send this link to the Myth Busters. Let them test it. It's a mechanical device, so they could easily do it, and they'd give the enrgy pull a practical test by seeing what it could actually run. I'm still really sceptical about the part where they give the impression that they've only tested it by getting energy readings off of the same device every time.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited August 2006
    Well, not currently, the patents they say they filed haven't gone completely through the process yet, so there are no instructions on how to build the thing, and there haven't been any pictures released of the machine, so someone couldn't work it out that way either.
  • Melted JhonnycakeMelted Jhonnycake
    edited August 2006
    It's sounds like a magnetically powered turbine to me, by attaching powerful magnets to each blade you would use the attraction to spin the blades, and create energy. Right?

    The only thing that's questionable is the fact that they have realeased so little information about it.
  • jcjc
    edited August 2006
    To be fair, that's not the only thing that's questionable.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited August 2006
    "It's the Pons-Fleischmann factor," says McCarthy, and he and Walshe look at each other darkly. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann were the last experts to excite the scientific community with free-energy claims when, in 1989, they reported producing a nuclear-fusion reaction at room temperature - what happens in the sun at millions of degrees centigrade. The subsequent controversy resulted in the scientists being pilloried, even though the scientific community remains divided to this day over claims of "low-energy nuclear reactions".
    -Oh boy. But yeah, go mythbusters!

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