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Steorn again

Gone West · 2007-07-04 11:28:47

[sleepys rule] "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" So what ya reckon, who will be watching the webcast at 6PM? engadget and wired as well as RTE carried this story today. http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0704/steorn.html Load of shíte, or will it revolutionise the way we power our lives? Apparently you can see…

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#182 06-07-2007 12:53pm
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#183 06-07-2007 1:00pm
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Hmmm. And only a while ago, I wrote this:

My current guess is that Steorn will soon declare that they've run out of funds, and that this "best hope for mankind" will unfortunately never see the light of day unless they abandon their previous position of "no funding till we've proven ourselves", and will "reluctantly" seek outside investment to bring this revolutionary product to market. This will be necessitated in part by the unforseen technical problems that their current "demonstration" encountered.

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#184 06-07-2007 1:05pm
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daveirl wrote:

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Source me!.......

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#185 06-07-2007 1:08pm
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http://www.steorn.com/news/releases/?id=1001

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#187 06-07-2007 1:23pm
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Steorn are Muppets.

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#188 06-07-2007 1:49pm
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steorns secret revealed

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#189 06-07-2007 2:13pm
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Cancelled due to heat. They should have at least come up with a better excuse!

If the whole thing is made out of perspex, then it'll melt at something like 50 or 60ºC? Maybe hotter even. If they had any experimental experience they would have made it out of polycarbonate which is good up to at least 130ºC or something like that. How hot can these lights be?!

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#190 07-07-2007 10:38am
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bonkey wrote:

I explained that your explanation of what a law actually is is incorrect.

Yes, I do. I was correcting your understanding of what a law is, in a scientific context.

Law in a scientific context is a statement of fact meant to explain, in concise terms, an action or set of actions. It is generally accepted to be true and Univseral, and can sometimes be expressed in terms of a single mathematical equation. they are accepted at face value based upon the fact that they have always been observed to be true.

so when i observe it to be false it will no longer be a law.

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#191 08-07-2007 1:11am
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ScabbyLeg wrote:

Cancelled due to heat.

Oh no, no, no. The heat of a ... light bulb no less. If their wonderous infinite energy creation device can be stifled by a simple light bulb then it really doesn't deserve, eh, the light of day.

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#192 08-07-2007 1:50am
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Now, if only steorn could invent something that runs on bullsh!t...

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#193 08-07-2007 1:53am
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Blackhorse Slim wrote:

Now, if only steorn could invent something that runs on bullsh!t...

They have. Their PR machine.

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#194 08-07-2007 2:23am
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I don't know which would be more despicable, a bunch of opportunistic thieves trying to con investors out of money or or a bunch of "scientists" stumbling across a way to produce "free energy" for the world and keeping it a secret so people don't get it for free.

At the root of these free energy contraptions you'll usually find chemists or engineers. wasn't there some chemist claiming that there was energy available in lower ground states in the hydrogen atom some time ago. I think he did rather well out of it too.

If and when this comes to an end I hope they are thoroughly investigated and if they have profited from it tried for fraud so that others like them are discouraged from attempting the same thing.

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#195 08-07-2007 2:35am
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Post disaster Q&A session:

http://www.steornpower.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=92

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#196 08-07-2007 10:22am
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Raoul Duke wrote:

Post disaster Q&A session:

http://www.steornpower.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=92

Ah the smell of fresh made bull****.

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#197 08-07-2007 1:30pm
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"It was the heat, but yeah, i dont have any definitive reason, but yeah, it was the heat"

What a mumbling idiot.

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#198 08-07-2007 3:42pm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_ESdiF2wM

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#199 08-07-2007 6:37pm
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thrill wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_ESdiF2wM

I wuv you

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#200 08-07-2007 7:46pm
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Catsmokinpot wrote:

Law in a scientific context is a statement of fact meant to explain, in concise terms, an action or set of actions. It is generally accepted to be true and Univseral, and can sometimes be expressed in terms of a single mathematical equation. they are accepted at face value based upon the fact that they have always been observed to be true.

I said your assertion that it cannot be broken because it was a law was wrong.

What you've just said is entirely in agreement with what I said. It is not the case that laws cannot be broken, but rather that we have a very high degree of confidence that they will not be.

so when i observe it to be false it will no longer be a law.

More likely, should that happen, it will remain a law but the boundaries within which it apply will be revised.

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#201 08-07-2007 9:49pm
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thrill wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_ESdiF2wM

lol... love the duncan overtones

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#202 04-10-2018 9:55am
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Just a cheeky bump for this - it just happened to get a name check in a feature on con artists and gullibility so I thought I'd look it up and see if they are ready to reset the laws of physics.

http://revolution-green.com/steorn-o-cube-delayed/ worth a read.

http://dispatchesfromthefuture.com/2018/03/update-on-steorns-spin-offs/

which takes you to http://www.hephaheat.com/ which is behind this https://www.irishtimes.com/business/fact-or-fiction-irish-firm-invents-everlasting-battery-1.2506832

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#203 04-10-2018 9:58am
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He moved into trading cryptocurrency. Of course he did. Once a con artist, always a con artist.

Chances are he's trading someone else's money, not his own.

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#204 04-10-2018 10:00am
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Harry Palmr wrote: »

Just a cheeky bump for this - it just happened to get a name check in a feature on con artists and gullibility so I thought I'd look it up and see if they are ready to reset the laws of physics...

by time travelling 11 years.

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#205 04-10-2018 10:01am
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Harry Palmr wrote: »

Just a cheeky bump for this - it just happened to get a name check in a feature on con artists and gullibility so I thought I'd look it up and see if they are ready to reset the laws of physics.

http://revolution-green.com/steorn-o-cube-delayed/ worth a read.

A con artist who used to claim he had developed a free energy machine moves on to cryptocurrency trading. Seems logical. The crypto space is filled with opportunists, conmen, and criminals. And a (decreasing in fairness) number of gullible fools willing to give them money. Never underestimate the stupidity of people involved in cryptocurrency, especially the poor bag holders at the bottom of the pyramid scheme.

This guy saw that and spotted a new opportunity.

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#206 31-05-2020 11:46pm
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Another bump (you'd think I had an interest in this!)

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/steorn-book-barry-j-whyte-extract-5106974-May2020/

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#207 01-06-2020 1:11am
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Harry Palmr wrote: »

Another bump (you'd think I had an interest in this!)

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/steorn-book-barry-j-whyte-extract-5106974-May2020/

Thanks, picked up the kindle version.

I've always read every article about this that I've come across. Might as well read a full book about it.

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