Steorn Warning  

I was going to drop in briefly on the weekend to note that Irish "free energy" company Steorn were about to put their machine on display, with the launch coinciding with the "Live Earth" concerts.

It seems the launch has been brought forward a couple of days and will start July 5 at the Kinetica Museum at Spitalfields in London - if any UK based readers feel like dropping in and telling me if this is outright charlatanry or may actually have something to it I'd be interested in hearing a first hand account of their act.

Apparently the device is a Tesla style machine deriving energy from magnetic fields, which would currently place it firmly in the realm of pseudo-science - however the free energy world does seem to have a very large and committed following - the dream of a perpetual motion machine never dies...

From Wired.

Supposedly, today the world will change forever. Steorn, the Irish company behind the controversial free energy device Orbo, will be displaying the technology in London's Kinetica Museum, and online. Announced last year to widespread skepticism, Orbo supposedly runs on nothing, producing limitless free power:

Orbo produces free, clean and constant energy - that is our claim. By free we mean that the energy produced is done so without recourse to external source. By clean we mean that during operation the technology produces no emissions. By constant we mean that with the exception of mechanical failure the technology will continue to operate indefinitely.

To counteract the critics, Steorn gave the plans to 22 scientists (suspiciously chosen by Steorn themselves) to validate the technology. If true, then the laws of physics will have to be rewritten. If false, nobody will trust the people behind the claim ever again. It's hard to work out why the company is doing this, with ridicule looking like the only result.

According to Engadget, the announcement will be in London at 6pm today. Remember where you first heard the phrase "time variant magneto-mechanical interactions".