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In a troubled world, good news is often ignored or trampled underfoot by sceptics who scream it's too good to be true. So goes the cry to Steorn.

A small Dublin company, Steorn is going to change the world. That is my prediction. If I am wrong then I eat a little crow and if I'm right, well, the world changes. My embarrassment is nothing - it is not going to happen.

I'm Paul Story; writer and self-confessed optimist. I am also a Steorn Private Development Club (SPDC) member.

In August last year, I visited Steorn's website to find out why someone would pay for a full page advert in the Economist to promote something that was obvious nonsense. They said they could power a car with no fuel, free us from household wires, tear down the power grid, humble oil barons, reduce global warming and generally save the planet. OK, the words are mine, but the implications of their claims were that profound and had to be utter nonsense.

The problem was, the more I knew, the less I understood. Nothing made sense until I did a crazy thing. I asked myself the question, what if? What if they were telling the truth? As soon as I did this, all the nonsense started to make sense - everything that is except the claim itself. That was still crazy. But, what if?

Over time, I will link to sites that give a fair and balanced view. They are well worth visiting if you want to get a complete picture of the mystery of Steorn. Fair and balanced does not mean that all comments in these blogs are reasonable and the current trend is one of scepticism. Fair enough. This blog will be different. It is my personal view and it is optimistic.

As yet, I do not have the magic formula, but as a member of the SPDC I have learned things that bolster my faith in the people behind Steorn. I am not their mouthpiece and I do not answer to them. However, I do believe them. This blog is an attempt to provide a point of view that seems rare among the clamour and vitriol that dominates discussions on the topic. It takes the, what if, and runs with it.

I do not pretend to be an expert on energy; my physics degree is relegated to informing my fiction. However, I have been following the story of Steorn closely from August last year and promise to write honestly as I see it. Over the coming months we will all discover the truth of it, meanwhile this blog will be my notepad to the world. I will present forward-looking ideas and I will attempt to deliver an independent view that is coherent and informative. If you think this view would be useful to you, subscribe to the newsletter (or the rss feed) and each entry will be delivered to your mailbox without you having to lift a finger. The address will stay with me and your privacy is assured.

The world is about to change. Hold on tight.