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Irish Company Claims to have Developed "Free Energy" Technology

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  1. geeimsobored

    geeimsobored Contributing Member

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    Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060818/bs_afp/irelandscienceenergy

    DUBLIN (AFP) - An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy.

    The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics.

    It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars.

    Steorn issued its challenge through an advertisement in the Economist magazine this week quoting Ireland's Nobel prize-winning author George Bernard Shaw who said that "all great truths begin as blasphemies".

    Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said they had issued the challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so it can be developed.

    "What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.

    "The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy," he told Ireland's RTE radio.

    McCarthy said Steorn had not set out to develop the technology, but "it actually fell out of another project we were working on".

    One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.

    McCarthy said a big obstacle to overcome was the disbelief that what they had developed was even possible.

    "For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.

    "But we have been unable to get significant scientific interest in it. We have had scientists come in, test it and, off the record, they are quite happy to admit that it works.

    "But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said.
     
    #1 geeimsobored, Aug 21, 2006
  2. MadMax

    MadMax Contributing Member

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    You're damn right it's an Irish company!!! :D

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    #2 MadMax, Aug 22, 2006
  3. RunninRaven

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    Yeah, I just figured out how to perform cold fusion down in my garage this morning...but I, uh, lost...my notes.

    I'll keep my fingers crossed for these guys that it is not all a big BS publicity stunt, but I highly doubt it.
     
    #3 RunninRaven, Aug 22, 2006
  4. Davidoff

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    Then they all grabbed a drink, started fighting and forgot what they had just created.. ;)
     
    #4 Davidoff, Aug 22, 2006
  5. UTweezer

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    hmmm...i thought the irish already perfected sustainable free energy

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    #5 UTweezer, Aug 22, 2006
  6. MR. MEOWGI

    MR. MEOWGI Contributing Member

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    ?

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    #6 MR. MEOWGI, Aug 22, 2006
  7. DaDakota

    DaDakota If you want to know, just ask!

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    Hey, you never know.....

    DD
     
    #7 DaDakota, Aug 22, 2006
  8. ima_drummer2k

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    We invented "pure energy" back in the 80's.

    Sincerely,

    [​IMG]
     
    #8 ima_drummer2k, Aug 22, 2006
  9. gifford1967

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    I had an idea about a perpetual motion machine that uses magnets. Something along the lines of a steel ball on a string (like a pendulum) with two powerful magnets on either side. Once the ball is swinging the magnetic force would help maintain it's momentum. The trick is how do you get the magnetic force to release, so that gravity will cause the ball to swing back to the other side.
     
    #9 gifford1967, Aug 22, 2006
  10. the futants

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    that's really funny and all, but now i have that f*#cking song in my head and it won't leave!!! :mad:


    :cool:
     
    #10 the futants, Aug 22, 2006
  11. Dubious

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    Dark Matter Found


    I'll say this, we still don't know crap about how the universe works. We can mathematically describe things but the actual mechanism for gravity, magnetism or string energy etc. is still a mystery. There might be energy to be released in magnetism. Conventional electricity generation uses a magnetic flux but of course requires more energy input than you get out.
    The energy is there if you could figure how to release it, like releasing the
    nuclear bond energy with fission.

    mmmmmm, probably not though, but good luck with that. Unlimited energy might just make something out of this screwd up planet.
     
    #11 Dubious, Aug 22, 2006
  12. MadMax

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    Be careful, fellow Irishmen. I'm just sayin'

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    #12 MadMax, Aug 22, 2006
  13. Rocket River

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    Yea
    now the governments of the world
    will declare war on Ireland and its weapons of Mass Destruction

    new evidence find that Muhammed O'abdul and Abdul McMuhammed
    were a part of 9/11

    Rocket River
    on the real . .the energy companies will not allow this to happen

    "The world is addicted to oil .. .. has to be weened off it" - Morgan Freeman in Chain Reaction
     
    #13 Rocket River, Aug 22, 2006
  14. Rocket River

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    Still a Giant Leap of Faith
    Just like Religion

    Rocket River
     
    #14 Rocket River, Aug 22, 2006
  15. MR. MEOWGI

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    Well when cpu models support the theory, it isn't that big of a leap.
     
    #15 MR. MEOWGI, Aug 22, 2006
  16. JuanValdez

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    This reminds me of when the Segway was announced -- how it was going to change travel as we know it -- or when that cult announced they had cloned humans.
     
    #16 JuanValdez, Aug 22, 2006
  17. MadMax

    MadMax Contributing Member

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    dude, the Irish never lie like that. and there are no snakes on a plane or anywhere else there.
     
    #17 MadMax, Aug 22, 2006
  18. Mr. Brightside

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    haha, yes. I have this book in my collection.
     
    #18 Mr. Brightside, Aug 22, 2006
  19. MadMax

    MadMax Contributing Member

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    i do too...good stuff. i'm reading Desire of the Everlasting Hills right now...also written by Cahill. i recommend it.
     
    #19 MadMax, Aug 22, 2006
  20. Rocket River

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    Garbage in Garbage out

    computers. . . you can direct what you want out of it
    but directing what you put into it

    Rocket River
    LEAP
    OF
    FAITH

    If putting in a computer makes u feel better
    and more superior
    and more scientific . . .fine
    but
    it is still
    a
    leap
    of
    faith
     
    #20 Rocket River, Aug 22, 2006
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