Steorn - free energy

Fanny Cradock

As some of you may remember, back in August 2006 an Irish company, Steorn, made an incredible claim that they had stumbled upon a way of producing 'a clean and constant' source of energy. If true, such an astounding discovery would have meant that some of the fundamental laws of physics - particularly the 1st Law of Thermodynamics - would have to be rethought, and the looming energy crisis averted.

Bar the embarrassment of the cancellation of the public demonstration of their technology, which they couldn't get to work, I've not heard a peep from these guys since summer 2007. The independent panel of experts brought in to determine if Steorn's claims were a steaming pile of crud or not should have reported back at this stage, but there's not a sausage from them. Has anyone heard any news?

http://www.steorn.com/about/

GhostInTheRuins

Of course not.

javaboy

Silenced by the fossil fuel crowd. Damn conspiracy I tells ya!

togster

Tools

Tippex

havent heard much from David Icke recently either. is there a link?

zuutroy

God stop giving these retards column inches.

blah

I remember reading about this, I had a look at wikipedia.

It points out a comment in the Houston Chronicle

Recall that Steorn is a former e-business company that saw its market vanish during the dot.com bust. It stands to reason that Steorn has re-tooled as a Web marketing company, and is using the "free energy" promotion as a platform to show future clients how it can leverage print advertising and a slick Web site to promote their products and ideas. If so, it's a pretty brilliant strategy.

So basically it wasn't so much "look at us, members of the public, we've created free energy" but actually "look at us, prospective clients, we can promote our imaginary product, and we can promote your real products"

po0k

Focking Morketing Kants thelotofem

JimmyCrackCorn!

So it was a large publicity stunt?

Though i will say i did like the joe90 sound the magic magnet made.:)

decokiernan

Yet here we are discussing them some years later.

Indeed they really failed in their marketting techniques.

Burnt Toast

I don't see how this would be a good example of good marketing skills, a retard could market free energy. All they needed was a believable theory and alot of money to take out a full size page ad in a scientific magazine. Obviously people were going to look into it, and ask questions..

I think the marketing part of it is bull.. and honestly, id say they have something.

zuutroy

Burnt Toast wrote: »

and honestly, id say they have something.

lol, are you for real?

Burnt Toast

I think they're working on something, weather it works or not i dunno.

Burnt Toast

Burnt Toast wrote: »

I think they're working on something, weather it works or not i dunno.

Weather or not it works?

I'd imagine a machine like that that does not work in bad weather wouldn't go too well in this country.

CantGetNoSleep

Doesnt matter, global warming is a myth

JIZZLORD

sounds like a heap of ****e to me. anyone with some knowledge of physics should be able to tell that this is utter crap. and their lack of proof only helps to drive the nail into the coffin

Canis Lupus

I had hoped they'd be dragged out and publicly humiliated rather than being allowed to slip into obscurity.

Sherifu

I thought they were trying to make a super cool kind of Connect Four. It was good bullshit while it lasted.

Wertz

decokiernan wrote: »

Yet here we are discussing them some years later.

Indeed they really failed in their marketting techniques.

Did you buy anything that they "marketed"? Do you know anyone who did?
Telling the public at large a blatant pack of lies and thumbing your nose at the scientific community isn't good marketing...personally if I was in the situation where I needed my product marketed I'd be going anywhere but to this crowd, lest the buying public end up thinking that my product doesn't actually exist...

[edit] the only reason anyone is talking about them years later is because they made a totally outlandish claim and stuck to their guns that they weren't bluffing....then suddenly disappear and expect people to forget that for a tiny moment all our dreams of free green energy were answered...

Fanny Cradock

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Doesnt matter, global warming is a myth

I can only assume that you forgot to put in one of these

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cousin_borat

I would like to see them come out with some explanation at this stage. Last I seen was the embarrasing YouTube video at the failed exhibition of the product in London

Sherifu

cousin_borat wrote: »

I would like to see them come out with some explanation at this stage. Last I seen was the embarrasing YouTube video at the failed exhibition of the product in London

Did you invest?

cousin_borat

I guess that sounded a bit po faced. No, I mean if they were so blase in the first instance then where are they now? I mean if they genuinely made a mistake with the demo or calculations than it is explainable but it looks increasingly likely that it was just a publicity stunt. Another guy in the US is claiming to have another machine doing the same thing

Annatar

one of the forum members did do a groovy thing with magnets and some plastic... Alsetalonkin (sp???) made what he called a whipmag.
Some strange things going on in the youtube vid for it. They sync Rotors etc and it keeps spinning..... and will accelerate if some of the stator magnets are stopped...

weird I tells ye ...weird!