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 Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:03 pm Post subject: "Free" Energy - Is It True? Is it really FREE? |
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 FINTAN & Forum - Know anything at all about these guys?
 As much as I let myself be misled by the use of the term "free" I will say this: IT AIN'T GONNA BE FREE!
Unfortunately, they are referring to the creation or generation of the energy as "free" of any costs to the environment, etc. but not without cost to the laws of thermodynamics - and the virtual stonewalling, skepticism and outright vengeful vicious attacks. Of course, maybe those were folks reacting in the same way that J.P. Morgan reacted to claims that Tesla was going to be making "free" energy back in 1915-1919 or so - and what did J.P. Morgan do with Tesla?
Bought him out and shut him down! 
Now that I think about it, we are currently in the same phase of the Galactic Underworld as the planet back when J.P. Morgan found Tesla.
The years 1913 -1933 are evolutionarily the 5th day of the Planetary Underworld. For us, a total of 360 days which began on November 23, 2006 - November 18, 2007.
Rate of evolution increases by 20x per level - think of the same # of Aspects & Intentions occuring in a much shorter time frame than it took for the last 5th day).
It looks like these guys have something to make everyone nervous...but then again, every time I log onto the internet it seems like there is another breakthrough of some sort. 
These are the times to be alive - how are we so fortunate to recognize that and embrace it? Peace and be well to all. 
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Stoern's REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY
• We have developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy.
• This means never having to recharge your phone, never having to refuel your car.
• A world with an infinite supply of clean energy for all.
• A genuine solution to the need for zero emission energy production.
• Our technology has been independently validated by engineers and scientists - always off the record, always proven to work.
The Energy Project
• In 2003, Steorn undertook a project to develop more efficient micro generators.
• Early into this project the company developed certain generator configurations that appeared to be over 100% efficient.
• Further investigation and development has led to the company’s current technology, a technology that produces free energy.
• The technology is patent pending.
Test methods applied to Steorn technology and results (Link Here):
http://www.steorn.net/en/results.aspx?p=5
Our Technology and the Laws of Physics
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. It also provides a secure supply of energy, since the components of the technology are readily available.
The technology is in a constant state of development. The company has focused for the past three years on increasing power output and the development of test systems that allow detailed analysis to be performed.
Steorn’s technology appears to violate the ‘Principle of the Conservation of Energy’, considered by many to be the most fundamental principle in our current understanding of the universe. This principle is stated simply as ‘energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form’.
Steorn is making three claims for its technology:
1. The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%.
2. The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts.
3. There is no identifiable environmental source of the energy (as might be witnessed by a cooling of ambient air temperature).
The sum of these claims is that our technology creates free energy.
This represents a significant challenge to our current understanding of the universe and clearly such claims require independent validation from credible third parties. During 2005 Steorn embarked on a process of independent validation and approached a wide selection of academic institutions. The vast majority of these institutions refused to even look at the technology, however several did.
Those who were prepared to complete testing have all confirmed our claims; however none will publicly go on record.
In early 2006 Steorn decided to seek validation from the scientific community in a more public forum, and as a result have published the challenge in The Economist.
The company is seeking a jury of twelve qualified experimental physicists to define the tests required, the test centres to be used, monitor the analysis and then publish the results.
Steorn has decided to publish its challenge in The Economist because of the breadth of its readership. "We chose it over a purely scientific magazine simply because we want to make the general public aware that this process is about to commence and to generate public support, awareness, interest etc for what we are doing."
Link to Stoern Web Site Here:
http://www.steorn.net/en/technology.aspx?p=5
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This is from the European Patent Office - one of two apps on file.
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LOW ENERGY MAGNETIC ACTUATOR
Technical Abstract of WO2006035419
• A low energy magnet actuator allows magnetic fields to be turned on and off using a small amount of energy.
• The magnetic actuator according to the invention generally includes a base (14) suitable for the support of a plurality of magnets (10,12).
• An actuatable shield [18] is positioned in relation to the plurality of magnets (10,12) so that it effectively blocks the magnetic field when it is positioned over at least one of the magnets (10,12).
• The magnetic fields of the plurality of magnets (10,12) interact in a manner that allows low energy actuation of the shield [18].
Link to Full Page Here for Citations Noted and # Above:
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO2006035419&F=8
Descriptive Abstract
• A low energy magnet actuator allows magnetic fields to be turned on and off using a small amount of energy.
• The magnetic actuator according to the invention generally includes a base suitable for the support of a plurality of magnets.
• An actuatable shield is positioned in relation to the plurality of magnets so that it effectively blocks the magnetic field when it is positioned over at least one of the magnets.
• The magnetic fields of the plurality of magnets interact in a manner that allows low energy actuation of the shield.
Company Statement
The patent ... is not a patent on the core steorn technology. Due to the fact that the US patent office does not allow patents with this claim we have filed a sequence of patents wich describe various aspects of the technology.
The patent ... is at the PCT stage and hence is available to the public. Our other patents are currently pre-PCT and will move to the PCT phase (and hence be available to the public) in the near future. [3]
Patent Demo by Brian Hafner
On Sept. 1, 2006, Brian Hafner brimichl@yahoo.com writes:
I have been reviewing the Steorn Patent and came up with a simple machine to demonstrate this technology:
• Review it and ask questions if there is any thing that is not clear.
• Not a scale drawing. Sorry.
Complete Link Here:
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Steorn_Free_Energy
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YouTube Video & MP3 Audio Interviews:
Last but not least - the Guardian UK Reprint from August 25, 2006.
| Quote: | THESE MEN THINK THEY ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE THE WORLD
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The Guardian
Friday August 25, 2006
Do you remember that awful feeling as a child on Christmas Day when Santa left you the toy you wanted . . . without any batteries? This feeling comes to me as I meet Sean McCarthy and Richard Walshe, two men making the claim that they are about to change the world - for ever.
These dynamic and personable businessmen from Dublin insist that they have found a way of producing free, clean and limitless energy out of thin air. And they are so confident that they have thrown down the gauntlet to the scientific community in a bid to prove that they have rewritten the laws of physics. Last week, frustrated that they couldn't persuade scientists to take their work seriously, McCarthy, Walshe and the other 28 shareholders of Steorn, a privately owned technology research company, took out a full-page advertisement in the Economist. In it, they called upon scientists to form a 12-member jury to decide whether their free-energy system is real, hoaxed, imagined or incorrectly well-intentioned.
So, as they prepare to demonstrate this wonder of science to me at their modest offices near the Liffey, I feel all the excitement of Christmas Day. There is a test rig with wheels and cogs and four magnets meticulously aligned so as to create the maximum tension between their fields and one other magnet fixed to a point opposite. A motor rotates the wheel bearing the magnets and a computer takes 28,000 measurements a second. The magnets, naturally, act upon one another. And when it is all over, the computer tells us that almost three times the amount of energy has come out of the system as went in. In fact, this piece of equipment is 285% efficient.
That's a lot of "free energy" and, supposedly, a slap in the face for one of physics' most basic laws, the principle of conservation of energy: in an isolated system (the planet, say), energy can be neither created nor destroyed; it can only be converted from one form into another.
"We couldn't believe it at first, either," says McCarthy, chief executive of the company. He is a 40-year-old engineer born in Birmingham but brought up in Dublin. After a couple of decades in the oil industry, McCarthy, Walshe and two others set up Steorn as a technology and intellectual-property development company. "We did difficult things. If someone had an idea that they wanted to make work, we'd work on it with them, help them recruit staff and get them through to their first product."
Then, by chance, came their "discovery". They were called upon by the police to help gain forensic evidence against "skimmers" who cloned the cards of people using ATMs. Subsequently, when banks approached asking how they could prevent such fraud, Steorn advised that the best way was to catch the small number of people committing most of the crime. They came up with a system of 16 tiny CCTV cameras that could guarantee recording the identities of the perpetrators.
"We wanted the cameras to be independently powered, so we tried out small solar and ambient wind generators," says McCarthy. "We wanted to improve the performance of the wind generators - they were only about 60-70% efficient - so we experimented with certain generator configurations and then one day one of our guys [co-founder Mike Daly] came in and said: 'We have a problem. We appear to be getting out more than we're putting in.'"
That was three years ago. Since then, McCarthy says, the company has spent £2.7m developing the technology. Steorn has also gone into partnership with a European micro-generator company to develop prototypes.
In Steorn's theory, fixed magnets could act upon a moving magnet in such a way as to make it a virtual perpetual motion generator. In an electrical appliance - a computer, kettle, mobile phone or toy - that would provide all the power for its lifetime. Of course, free-energy cars, power plants and water-pumping systems could follow. A better world indeed.
But then that Christmas Day feeling kicks in; doubts about the power source. According to McCarthy and Walshe, the marketing manager, there have been no fewer than eight independent validations of their work conducted by electrical engineers and academics "with multiple PhDs" from world-class universities. But none of them will talk to me, even off the record. I am promised a diagram explaining how the system works, but then Steorn holds it back, saying its lawyers are concerned about intellectual property rights. And that European partner, the one with the moving, almost perpetual, prototypes? It won't talk to me either and Steorn has undertaken not to name it.
"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".
"No one in the scientific community wants to become embroiled in the kind of controversy that Pons and Fleishmann faced," says McCarthy. "With our challenge, we're hoping to provide a respectable public platform for serious evaluation of the technology. Then, perhaps, scientists will feel confident enough to challenge the conventional view."
Certainly, the Steorn team seems genuine and well-intentioned. Walshe says that if the technology is accepted it will be licensed to manufacturers, but given away to electrical and water projects in developing countries. And, until their claims have been assessed by the jury, McCarthy says they won't be accepting any investor offers. So if this is a hoax, it would appear not to be a money-making scheme; Walshe says the Economist ad alone cost £75,000.
"Before we went public, we realised that if we're wrong it could have a very adverse effect on our business, so we're not doing this lightly," says McCarthy. "We expected stick, and we're getting it already. We've had a lot of abusive emails and telephone calls -people telling us to watch our backs, that sort of thing. Someone even published my home address on a website."
The conspiracy theorists are, indeed, having a field day in a forum section set up by the company on its website, www.steorn.com.
"We've been accused of being a publicity stunt for the next Microsoft Xbox gaming system because some of the artwork on our website was similar to theirs," says Walshe. "Some people have said our offices don't exist and one accused us of simply being a call centre in Australia because one of our telephonists has an Australian accent. My favourite is the one that says we are a CIA or oil-industry front intended to discredit research into free and clean energy. In other words, our claims are deliberately false and when they are found out to be, it will be a blow for all free and clean research."
Steorn says it has seven patents pending on its technology, though it is difficult to see what can be patented; magnets already exist and so do the 360 degrees of a circle. Yet it is the positioning of the magnets that seems to be at the heart of this "new" energy. And, as McCarthy points out, the Patent Office rejects inventions that fly in the face of such fundamental principles as, say, the conservation of energy. Nevertheless, as of yesterday, almost 3,000 people claiming to be scientists had expressed an interest in sitting on the Steorn jury. The 12 best will be chosen at the end of the month and then testing will begin.
"We've been advised it could take between a week and 10 years," says McCarthy. "We don't have any doubts. We've conducted meticulous research and we're getting such phenomenal results - up to 400% efficiency - that small glitches and errors in testing can be ruled out. We really believe we've found something that can change the world."
The rest of us can only wait and see. In the meantime, I ask Martin Fleischmann, the cold-fusion scientist, now 79 and retired, what he thought of the Steorn project.
"I am actually a conventional scientist," he says, "but I do accept that the existing [quantum electro-dynamic] paradigm is not adequate. If what these men are saying turns out to be true, that would be proof that the paradigm was inadequate and we would have to come up with some new theory. But I don't think their claims are credible. No, I cannot see how the position of magnetic fields allows one to create energy."
With great charm, Dr Fleischmann wishes the Steorn team luck. And if their "free" energy can light up a developing-world village or the eyes of a child with a toy, then perhaps we all should. |
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Nice compilation of all the facts.
Yeah Drew, it was discussed here:
Another CIA Free Energy Smear Scam?
http://www.breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5005
My feeling?
The whole thing of them taking out an advert is aimed
at publicity, not at securing investment or patenting.
Scam, I fear. |
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