The Jury
Given the recent announcement by the Steorn 'Jury':
http://stjury.ning.com
And Steorn's subsequent statement:
http://www.steorn.com/news/releases/?id=1151
I will write my thoughts on this in a few days. The knee-jerk reaction is to say that the jury was everything - the reason I gave any credence to Steorn's fantastical claims in the first place. That is what drew me in and allowed me to suspend disbelief. Since then, other events turned my position back to its normally sceptical state. Even so, there was always hope - there was always the jury.
I have voiced the knee-jerk reaction elsewhere - particularly inside the SPDC. I believe, however, it is all being said beyond this blog. I'll take a few days and come back again to try and put this in some kind of perspective from my point of view for anyone who cares.
The news is not surprising and yet I am still stunned. Strange.
http://stjury.ning.com
And Steorn's subsequent statement:
http://www.steorn.com/news/releases/?id=1151
I will write my thoughts on this in a few days. The knee-jerk reaction is to say that the jury was everything - the reason I gave any credence to Steorn's fantastical claims in the first place. That is what drew me in and allowed me to suspend disbelief. Since then, other events turned my position back to its normally sceptical state. Even so, there was always hope - there was always the jury.
I have voiced the knee-jerk reaction elsewhere - particularly inside the SPDC. I believe, however, it is all being said beyond this blog. I'll take a few days and come back again to try and put this in some kind of perspective from my point of view for anyone who cares.
The news is not surprising and yet I am still stunned. Strange.
posted by Paul Story at
16:24
4 Comments:
Hi Paul,
I'd be very interested to hear your opinion on this, given that you are a member of the SPDC. On the non-SPDC forum, there are a few voices saying that they're as confident as ever, due to what they know as members of the SPDC. It sounds like you're not as sure. Can you tell us about your take on whether Steorn has shown the SPDC more convincing evidence than they ever showed the jury (without violating your NDA, of course)?
Thanks!
Hi Michael,
There is nothing I can say regarding what happens or otherwise in the SPDC. I know that's frustrating, but that's where we are. I can say, however, that to me, the jury is what made Steorn stand out from the free-energy crowd. On so many levels, it matters. I will write a post sometime soon, but at the moment, cannot see how it would say much more than the statement above. I only believe in writing when I think I have something worthwhile to say. Ultimately, after all this time, the end has to come sometime soon. A little more patience and we will all know.
Paul don't you think the Steorn saga is a total embarassment to the people of Ireland and a discredit to the legacy of George Bernard Shaw?
Steorn's weakness is that they claimed that Orbo was a real working discovery in 2003 with a small wind generator that lead to the discovery of OU. "According to CEO Sean McCarthy, in 2003 Steorn's engineers were hard at work developing a security camera system to keep watch over ATM machines. They were playing with the idea of using a small wind generator to power the camera system so it wouldn't need to be hooked up to an electric line. Being tinkering types, they were trying out various configurations of the wind generator's magnets in an attempt to improve its efficiency, when the engineer working on this bumped into a problem: the generator appeared to be putting out more energy than it was taking in."
So wtf is the generator?????????????????????????
I mean how many modifications can you make to an off the shelf small wind generator to create such a wonderful configuration that creates OU. Such BS. All the while the national press gives a free ride to Steorn tarring the good name of real scientists and engineers in Ireland by not exposing these frauds for what they are worth.
The investors are complete cowards for allowing Steorn to perpetuate the fraud and should be ashamed of their conduct in allowing Steorn use such an international platform to discredit Ireland's R & D image abroad.
Some government body needs to understand that what Steorn is doing is no different than what Madoff had done before being caught but in this case much harm is being done to Ireland's knowledge economy by these scam artists.
You could look at the business of the free energy discovery as never having begun. Steorn did many things intended to gain public confidence. The jury was a big part of that for years. Steorn never did the one thing, the only thing that should have ever mattered: show proof.
When someone says they've made a discovery open proof separates whats real from the products of confusion, fraud, or delusion.
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