Steorn Now Being Openly Mocked

Too bad the energy from that ‘excessive lighting’ could not be somehow harnessed

His excessively breathy voice made me quit watching after 10 seconds.

They were more rediculous than Clown Co the moment they claimed the operation of their gadget was “a violation of the principle of conservation of energy.”

See:

http://www.steorn.com/orbo/claim

Not. Funny.

Looks like the “powers that be” got to them by threatening their life. Too bad they didn’t have the guts to go through with it. It’s better to be brave and dead then live as a coward.

Don - you should have stuck with it. About the 50 sec. mark i started laughing.

C’mon, that was hilarious.

What do you expect from the land of the gift of blarney?
world-class bs-ers ‘em irish all are.

I know this can be a prank, but remember that trough all history, people mocked of innovations. Google earth would be rendering a box right now… Cheers

Hey Mike,

At least somebody *else* is getting openly mocked !!

LOL. Not that it matters. LOL

Yeah, openly mocking BLOWHARD LAWYERS is wayyyyy too easy.

Steorn allegedly tried to patent the Orbo last year, without much success…

http://technology.guardian.co......28,00.html

could this be next powerset.com hype?

Good report Mr. Mike. When I first read their claims I was intrigued but of course it’s a hoax a you can tell by the way they have hyped the silly “launch” of the gizmo. A free energy device would be the greatest invention in the history of humankind. You hardly need any marketing hype for that. This is now a test of sheer human gullibility.

Not sure who is mocking who.

does this hoax have anything at all to do with the mission of TC? just curious…

Steorn… embarrassing the nation wherever they go. I can only wonder why the company persisted with the ‘launch’ when it was never going to work.

Steorn has made a point of the scientific community carrying out a “process of validation” of the Orbo thingamajig — anybody else think that this report (supposedly due by the end of the year) will somehow remain unreleased?

http://www.steorn.com/orbo/claim/

They clearly had not read about the Law of Thermodynamics 2.0

I’ve been absolutely astounded by how much the media and the public have indulged these guys… here’s my take on it: http://tech.blorge.com/Structu.....ever-work/

I honestly don’t know why you posted this on Techcrunch.

to be fair to Mike, he does mention our company LouderVoice which is a new site that allows people to find, publish and share reviews on blogs and micro-blogs.

The Steorn thing was just a bit of fun in advance of allowing people to have their video reviews indexed by our site.

Right now we index/publish microformatted reviews from/to all the major blogging platforms. We also have experimental support for mini-reviews from Twitter/Jaiku and we just indexed our first TwitterGram.

Our aim is to replace all the silos and slurpers out there with the hub model which routes quality review information from those who write it to those who need it.

Not being a physicist, but why can’t certain laws be incorrect? It seems.. counter productive.. that anytime people claim to have found something that could change everything for the better they are criticised. Granted, though, in this case.. well.. it does all seem to be rather err… shady.

A good Guardian article, from Steorn’s website: http://www.steorn.com/media/downloads/guardian.jpg

certain laws of science cannot be incorrect because they are just that, “laws”. if it was that anyone so far was unable to prove it wrong but the possibility existed, then they’d have been postulates.
the pursuit of science is to make things better. But after following this story over the different blogs, it seems a lot of people are saying “one needs to keep an open mind / remember earth was declared flat/ every great inventor is ridiculed at first” and so on ad nauseum. These people all seem to have a common idea that scientists, be they phycisists, chemists, or social scientists, are a bunch of arrogant close minded bunch that dreams up some ‘laws’, and imposes them on the rest of populace. Scientific conclusions have never been reached in that manner. Each and every minor discovery and claim is discussed and analysed to deatjh for decades, usually by peers all very eager to prove the guy wrong.

Science is an ongoing process of gradually adding tiny little bits of data on top of each other. Open mindedness is a built-in requisite for the process, not an optional one. If these steorn guys think they can beat this compilation of thousands of years of human wisdom by showing two aluminum tubes and a magnet and have people come to their defense saying we should give them a chance, then thats the real disservice to the pursuit of knowledge as a noble aim.

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When you stick a magnet on the fridge you are not violating the laws of thermodynamics. It seems common sense that you set up magnets correctly with and minimize all friction and you can get what looks like perpetual motion. I have seen other electromagnetic motors that seem a lot more convincing. The one major question is if the motion sucks the life out of the magnets. Steorn says it doesn´t. I am pulling for them but am not very hopeful right now.

Laws are laws, what tosh! Im afraid many of the laws of physics are incorrect, for example, the humble light, when you look at the process behind it ie current in / current out it is the same, but both light and heat are generated , a violation for the conservation of energy. . Gravity is another example. What power source is there that hold the moon in earths orbit, 24/7? Or light itself. What powers light? The speed of light is 186,000 miles per sec. If light is shone into a different medium ie water, it slows down, but when it exits it resumes it full light speed, how?. Finally, currently it is believed that when energy is removed from a system, work gets harder to do. BUT, how is it possible then for freezing water to crack open metal pipes, it takes a lot of energy as we know it to crack metal.

My point is that currently , physics is unable to explain 100% accurately the so called laws that it preaches. Anyone who is interested should read a book called THE FINAL THEORY, it shed new light on many things, inc space , time and energy. Just because the establishment say that it is this way, it doesn`t mean that it is so. Ever heard of Stanley Meyer? Google him, theres energy for free out there, good luck Steorn.

John Beechey, I doubt that any of the examples you gave violate the law of conservation of energy. Conservation of energy is well understood in gravitational systems, for example. The sum of the potential and kinetic energy of an orbiting body remains contant. Maybe a physicist can deal with your other examples. It may be that gravity, light or electricity in itself is not fully understood, but this is not a reason to be skeptical of the law of conservation of energy.