[NukeNet] Scientists flock to test 'free energy' discovery

[MJ]

This is quite interesting - would love to hear what any tech-type people
out there think about the viability of this.  MoJo

Scientists flock to test 'free energy' discovery

David Smith
Sunday August 20, 2006
The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1854305,00.html

A man who claims to have developed a free energy technology which could
power everything from mobile phones to cars has received more than 400
applications from scientists to test it.

http://www.steorn.net

Sean McCarthy says that no one was more sceptical than he when Steorn, his
small hi-tech firm in Dublin, hit upon a way of generating clean, free and
constant energy from the interaction of magnetic fields. 'It wasn't so
much a Eureka moment as a get-back-in-there-and-check-your-instruments
moment, although in far more colourful language,' said McCarthy. But when
he attempted to share his findings, he says, scientists either put the
phone down on him or refused to endorse him publicly in case they damaged
their academic reputations. So last week he took out a full-page advert in
the Economist magazine, challenging the scientific community to examine
his technology.

McCarthy claims it provides five times the amount of energy a mobile phone
battery generates for the same size, and does not have to be recharged.
Within 36 hours of his advert appearing he had been contacted by 420
scientists in Europe, America and Australia, and a further 4,606 people
had registered to receive the results.

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Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology

http://www.physorg.com/news75115456.html

An Irish company threw down the gauntlet on Friday to the worldwide
scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims
produces free energy.

The company, Steorn (http://www.steorn.net), 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.

© 2006 AFP


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