19 August 2006

The Good News Is Unlimited Free Energy

OJ buries the lead in a post ostensibly about gas prices falling in the run-up to the November election. He adds on a link to this article:
Company claims to have developed new technology that provices [sic] unlimited free energy (gizmag.com)

Steorn, an Irish company, claims to have produced a groundbreaking (we do not use this word lightly) technology which is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and produces free, clean and constant energy. If the claims are true, the new technology will enable 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 will also provide a secure supply of energy, since the components of the technology are readily available. Steorn’s technology is claimed to allow the production of clean, free and constant energy. Steorn’s technology appears to violate the ‘Principle of the Conservation of Energy’, (energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form) considered by many to be the most fundamental principle in our current understanding of the universe. Fully aware that its claims will be considered bunkum by anyone who has graduated kindergarten, Steorn today issued a challenge to the global scientific community to test its free energy technology.
The bad news is that the Universe doesn't actually exist.

1 comment:

Oroborous said...

There's not really any need for the global scientific community to test Steorn's free energy technology. If it really works, then Steorn has a massive advantage over other firms in any business that requires large energy inputs.

My advice is for Steorn to prove the skeptics wrong by making a trillion dollars as an industrial company, and then everyone will be begging for their tech, and they can have a hearty last laugh.