Stressed-Out Steorn
For what it’s worth, here are my thoughts on the current state of Steorn’s demo.
Anyone who has been an engineer, scientist, programmer, technician, or a practitioner of any art that involves prototyping, will understand what these guys are going through right now. It is easy to say now what they should have done to prepare for such an important event but it would be churlish and unproductive to do so.
We may be disappointed but that is nothing to the Steorn crew’s high-profile stress-out. I will wait until something happens that is worth commenting on before I do so. I keep my fingers crossed that that will be tomorrow when I see the working Orbo doing its thing in Kinetica. Until then, I simply wish them luck.
Labels: delay, demo, energy, free, london, ORBO, renewable, Steorn
posted by Paul Story at
17:23
7 Comments:
Sorry Paul you seem a nice guy but this is a farce. The Steorn zealots just cannot admit it is over. My wife launched a new piece of software last month. She had 22 people from around the world come to see it. She had 4 laptops set up with the software running on each one. Each one was a back up of the other, it was too critical to have a failure on the first day. If Steorn really had this, they would have had ten machines all running and all ready as backups. Engineers would do that! They would have tested it out in their lab endlessly and just brought it over on the day. Why didnt they? It is the end of story - I now seriously belive this is a scam. The whole show was just a set up becaue they got cornered. Why do I belive this happened? I suspect it goes as follows, validation was going badly for them (we now know why) and they figured they would short circuit it and have a public demo to prove their technology. Only problems is when they said the thing was 80-90% ready, they really meant it. They hoped to perfect it by the First week in July, they didnt because it DOES NOT WORK. It is proven not to work now. I would guess within a few weeks the validation results will be published or leaked and they will confirm what we have just seen. Nothing, Nada, Zero.
Everone thought just because they were so confident and spent so much money that Steorn had to have something. Why would they hire a place and have a slick website etc...The truth is they were spending money in anticipation of the perfecting of it.."just a little bit" almost there...it has to work.
We just witnessed corporate suicide on the web!
There was an outfit called Steorn,
Who promised us energy for eons,
To London we all went,
But the bearings got bent,
Can I have the cash back that I spent?
i would like to hear your opinion on the latest news, steorn "deferred" the demo.
All religions end if they core myths are punctured. This whole steorn thing was a relgion. A cult figure promising the impossible, his discples and the unbeliever, miracles required etc Doubting Thomases, the whole nine yards. The culties will follow and the rest of us will get on with life. I noticed you disabled comments which is a pity - I suspect you invested so much belief in this con game that it hurts paul. But hey so did everyone else - me included.
But my theory was right, they never had a fully working machine. Just a theory. And they never will have the machine. Might I suggest something that would make everyone really happy! A beautiful white wine called SHEPHERD'S RIDGE SAUVIGNON BLANC MARLBOROUGH 2005 or 2004 is great from New Zealand. Wine spectator gave it 91, which is very high. And it is availabe for around ten to fifteen pounds in good wine shops if you can get it. A jewel of a white wine for a bargain price. I have a bottle in the fridge and myself and the wife and going out to drink it now with some good food and good friends. Real wine - not pseudo science, gives you much more pleasure. Goodbye for good.
I've been involved with engineering, programming and prototypes, which is why I find the laughable "intense heat" excuse, and subsequent inability to fix a very simple device, utterly unbelievable.
Did no-one at Steorn think to take a video of the device when it was running, either in London or Dublin? Surely they have numerous devices, other prototypes they could show?
We were promised a device that lifted weights. Instead we get a simple free running device, which should have been trivial to show working. At 0.5W/cm3, high precision bearings are not required.
Up to now I have been skeptical while giving them the benefit of the doubt. It was just possible they have discovered an overlooked effect that has a practical use.
After this debacle, I have to conclude that the whole thing is a hoax. If Steorn demonstrates anything in future, I will assume it is a fake, until proven otherwise.
Steorn have had over six months (and €7 million) to impress the world. They have so blown it!
It's not about lying, it's more about extreme self delusion. And the delusion had a climax in a public demo. Until the last day even Sean kept on believing the impossible would happen. From the reactions on the Steorn forum it seems that the failure did even strengthen the faith of some followers. Maybe Frank Grimer isn't too much off by calling Steorn a cult.
Check www.FizzX.com for a deeper analysis.
Ping1400
Interesting comment, Ping. One of the comments on your post mentions the following:
"Well, it would be interesting, perhaps, to know what the feelings of the spud-brained club members are. But they are essentially a stupid lot who seem to believe that hundreds of years of painstaking study of the universe by - in many cases - geniuses can be overturned by someone who hasn't taken the trouble to study it. This ignorance, they seem to think, is a an advantage, as it allowy you to have original thoughts."
It is interesting to note, then, that the vast majority of the discoveries in this world have come from people who can only marginally be called geniuses. Newton "discovered" gravity by way of a falling apple - entirely by accident.
I'm no believer, but nor am I a disbeliever.
I'm someone who prefers to wait and see with such matters, but I'm open to the suggestion that it exists (in fact I hope it does).
Something I don't believe in is that anyone should be denied their stake to a claim, whether they understand the reasoning behind it or not, and especially if they don't understand it. Do you really think Newton really understood gravity?
If they can show something working, or some method by which they got to their claim, then that is surely enough for us all to stop and say "Ok, let's see what you have here" instead of removing it from all possibility.
Remember, it was impossible to travel faster than the speed of sound. It was impossible to separate science from religion. It was impossible to take man to the moon. It was impossible....
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