Summary 1
As I write the summary document I promised you, I will post my interpretation of the details surrounding Steorn’s claims:
First, we have the broad claim (in my words):
Steorn has a machine that is able to drive a load continuously without external power and with no apparent degradation of its constituent parts. Within normal limits of mechanical reliability, the machine will run for the useful life of the product it powers, without any need for fuel. This means that from the day you buy a phone or a laptop you will never have to plug it in. From the day you sit in your new car to the day you scrap it, you will never have to fill it with fuel.
In particular:
- The machine outputs mechanical energy.
- It is built from readily available materials and works using a particular and very specific effect of magnetism.
- At present, the motion is driven by permanent magnets.
- It is a simple matter to attach the output to a generator to produce electricity.
- It is likely that, at some point in the future, where the desired output is electrical, the generator coils will be incorporated into the machine itself.
- They have made a small range of prototypes to check scalability (3, I think)
- From a device the size of your fingernail to one that could power a car, the technology has been shown to be linearly scalable.
- The first-generation implementation has an energy density of around 0.5 Watts/cc
- It is likely that this energy density will rise in subsequent generations of the technology.
- Steorn intends to target the mobile market as it is uniquely able to bring products to mass market quickly.
- The cost of manufacturing a module that fits in your laptop or phone will be commensurate with the cost of a modern battery pack you use now. It will not, however, need to be recharged.
- While the company makes money for its shareholders in the developed world, it has structured its business model to maximise the benefits to the planet and its people as a whole.
- After placing an advert in The Economist in August last year, they attracted thousands of applications to test their claims.
- They selected 22 scientists from several of the world's leading academic/scientific institutions to form ‘The Jury’
- The company is privately funded and has a healthy balance. They do not need and will not accept offers of investment. Neither will they sell anything until the jury report their findings.
- Steorn does not manufacture products, it merely licences its intellectual property.
- It has a manufacturing partner that will make products to Steorn’s specifications. This partner will make a significant number of demonstration machines that it intends to sell over the net after the jury validates their claims. This machine is simply another form of validation – one that thousands of people around the world will have sitting on their desks proving to us all that their claims are backed up by more than words.
I will continue to post extracts, as I draw up the summary.
posted by Paul Story at
18:45
4 Comments:
I too am sure that Steorn have cracked it. It is gonna be a wild ride - Greg
Hi Greg. Indeed, the implications are simply staggering.
Hi Paul,
Hope you don't mind but I've used your material (incorporated, edited) in the following story:
THE EVERYTHING STORY
Perpetual Motion is upon us - video
Tom Dennen
The Irish company Steorn’s Orbo ‘perpetual motion’ project will, if nothing else go down as the master marketing strategy of the millennium.
First, they announced the fact that they had harnessed magnetic power and made a machine that could deliver 5% ‘over unity’ – 500 kilowatts of magnetic power goes in and 525 kilowatts of spendable energy comes out! Free energy!
OK, every thirty years some of the parts wear out and have to be replaced, but that against thirty years of free energy is as they say, ‘nothing’.
Heresy! cried the global scientific community, you can’t mess with The Laws of Physics, the carved-in-stone Laws of The Universe!
Then, in August, 2006 Steorn inserted a very expensive ad in The Economist inviting that same scientific community crying ‘heresy’ to come to the table, study the technology, evaluate it and pass judgement upon it. And asked only for ‘the Einstein’s of today’, the top, the world’s eminent scientists.
“We have done the impossible. Prove us wrong,” the ad said.
Three thousand former anti-heretic scientists stopped shouting ‘heresy’ and applied. By December last year, they had 22 who were qualified and motivated to rip the claim apart.
To get an idea of what these people claim to have harnessed, imagine a really powerful magnet stuck on a steel wall. Imagine an equally strong magnet in your hand, with you pushing the opposite pole against the magnet on the steel wall. It will repel your efforts for a very, very long time, without running out of energy, or power.
That’s what Steorn claim to have harnessed.
And with a panache you’ll have to discover for yourselves when they launch the technology – from all accounts, they are human beings who do not display what the planet is becoming exhausted by: Greed.
But yes, they are businessmen. They have patented whatever they can while creating a (marketing) ‘conspiracy theory’ of note. They have set up humanitarian projects that are not just hot air: “There will be no invoices sent to third world users of Orbo technology.”
They appear to be responsible global citizens who may actually change the world.
There are now several videos of various prototypes in action at("My HTML cannot be accepted... but it comes from your site, so you don't need it.)
Journalist Paul Story has followed the Steorn saga from the beginning. His summation:
“Although there are parallels with both recent and historical claims that turned out to be bogus or mistaken, Steorn’s behaviour does not follow the pattern of (bottom feeders) gone by. Indeed, it is difficult to come up with a reasonable framework that would account for their actions if one were to start from the common sense position that they are lying or mistaken. Most observers now doubt any theory that has Steorn profiting from an illegal misrepresentation of their claims.
”For a start, the company is privately funded and needs no more money to complete the process to its conclusion. It does not seek and will not accept offers of investment until after validation. It will sell nothing and will not enter into commercial agreements regarding future licensing deals. It has vowed that, once commercial operations begin, licensing will be inclusive – the company will not be bought out by a large corporation but will sell its technology to small and large concerns on an equal-access basis.
“Targeting a narrow market, McCarthy states that they have no wish to profit from those who cannot afford to pay for licences. To that end, the business model is designed to help the world benefit from their technology without raping it as they do so. Running alongside the profitable arm of selling licences to, for instance, the mobile technology sector, will be an ethos, mechanism and structure designed to spread the reality of free energy around the world with as few barriers to entry as possible. Individuals and groups working on humanitarian projects will pay Steorn nothing and a training database will be on-line ready to teach anyone with an interest exactly how to make it happen. A private developers’ club (SPDC), recruited from over 200 members of the global community, is working with Steorn to ensure that this database is ready and that when the doors open a small army of trained ‘seeds’ will help propagate the benefits to as many people in as short a time as possible. As I write this, a pilot project is under way somewhere in Africa to pump water to needy people. This is a symbol, in my opinion, of Steorn’s philosophy and a tiny example of the change that is set to cascade throughout the planet - all this as Steorn’s investors profit by selling their technology to a developed world desperate to free themselves from the tyranny of burning oil.”
This also comes from Paul, but I have edited out some repetitions from the above story and shortened some parts of this punch point summary:
· The machine delivers free mechanical energy.
· It is built from readily available materials and works using a particular and very specific effect of magnetism.
· The energy is delivered by permanent magnets.
· It is a simple matter to attach the output to a generator to produce electricity.
· Where the desired output is electrical, the generator coils will be incorporated into future models of the machine. Steorn has made a small range of prototypes (on the YouTube videos).
· From a device the size of your fingernail to one that could power a car, the technology has been shown to be linearly scalable.
· The first-generation implementation has an energy density of around 0.5 Watts/cc
· It is likely that this energy density will rise in subsequent generations of the technology.
· Steorn intends to target the mobile market (motor vehicles), as it is uniquely able to bring products to mass market quickly.
· The cost of a module that fits in your laptop or cell phone will be similar to the cost of a battery pack you use now but won’t need to be recharged.
· While the company makes money for its shareholders in the developed world, it has structured its business model to maximise the benefits to the planet and its people as a whole.
· The company is privately funded and has a healthy balance. (Steorn was instrumental in helping companies that suffered from the dot com crash).
· They do not need and will not accept offers of investment. Neither will they sell anything until the jury reports its findings.
· Steorn does not manufacture products, it merely licences its intellectual property.
· It has a manufacturing partner that will make products to Steorn’s specifications.
· This partner will make a significant number of demonstration machines that it intends to sell over the Internet after the jury validates their claims. This machine is simply another form of validation – one that thousands of people around the world will have sitting on their desks proving to us all that their claims are backed up by more than words.
Hear, hear!
Hi Tom,
I don't mind at all. The more people talking about this the better. I appreciate you writing the article and enjoyed reading it. Thanks for the attribution.
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