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Free, Clean Energy: an Elaborate Prank or the Fundamental Breakthrough?
We now know for more than a century that energy cannot be created and that it cannot be destroyed. It just transforms itself. But and Irish firm claims the contrary.
Sean McCarthy is the head of Steorn, a small hi-tech firm in Dublin. What brought him to fame was an advertisement page he bought in The Economist last week, inviting the scientific community to test his announced invention, which by the way, violates the very first principle of thermodynamics.
We are under no illusions that there will be a lot of cynicism out there about our proposition, as it challenges one of the basic principles of physics, he said.
However, the implications of our technology go far beyond scientific curiosity: they address many urgent global needs including security of energy supply and zero emission energy production.
The company, based in Dublins Docklands Innovation Park, is seeking 12 scientists to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove the technology creates free energy.
'It wasn't so much a Eureka moment as a get-back-in-there-and-check-your-instruments moment, although in far more colorful 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.
What the Irish firm claims is not less than the discovery which would make the famous perpetuum mobile a reality. The French Academy dismissed such scientific projects since the 18th century, after more than a hundred similar claims about the same matter proved to be total failures.
But now, McCarthy and his colleagues are bringing that matter back to life. We have to fight public opinion, we have to fight the scientific community and we have to fight the energy industry. We couldn't pick a worse battleground.
Despite the lack of trust from most academics, 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.
The claim does rail against so much thinking from ordinary people, through the engineering community to the academic community, it's a prerequisite that this is accepted by science, and that this is embraced by science.
"Oh, goodness, what can I say?" said Martin Sevior, associate professor at Melbourne University's School of Physics. "It violates a very fundamental principle of physics, and flies in the face of 2000-years-plus of physics. It's an incredibly big claim."
But Steorn's chief executive, Sean McCarthy, insisted that scientists had already examined the technology and had said off the record that it worked.
"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," he told Ireland's RTE radio.
"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."
"We fully accept there is going to be cynicism surrounding this but what we're saying to the world of science is come and prove us wrong," said Steorn Chief Executive Sean McCarthy.
Over the past two to three years, 90% of the scientists the company asked to examine the technology refused. He said the 10% who investigated drew the same conclusion as the company that it can create energy.
Were throwing down the gauntlet with todays announcement now its over to the scientists to ensure that the real potential and benefits of our technology can be realised.
Mr. McCarthy said the results would be published regardless of the outcome.
We have to fight public opinion, we have to fight the scientific community and we have to fight the energy industry. We couldn't pick a worse battleground.
Barry Williams, of the Australian Skeptics, said he did not believe it. "They are not the first company to claim they have suddenly discovered the miraculous property of magnetism that allows you to get free energy."
It really goes against the current understanding of physics, but certainly not out of the question. What do you folks think? Hoax, or real?
jag
Free, Clean Energy: an Elaborate Prank or the Fundamental Breakthrough?
We now know for more than a century that energy cannot be created and that it cannot be destroyed. It just transforms itself. But and Irish firm claims the contrary.
Sean McCarthy is the head of Steorn, a small hi-tech firm in Dublin. What brought him to fame was an advertisement page he bought in The Economist last week, inviting the scientific community to test his announced invention, which by the way, violates the very first principle of thermodynamics.
We are under no illusions that there will be a lot of cynicism out there about our proposition, as it challenges one of the basic principles of physics, he said.
However, the implications of our technology go far beyond scientific curiosity: they address many urgent global needs including security of energy supply and zero emission energy production.
The company, based in Dublins Docklands Innovation Park, is seeking 12 scientists to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove the technology creates free energy.
'It wasn't so much a Eureka moment as a get-back-in-there-and-check-your-instruments moment, although in far more colorful 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.
What the Irish firm claims is not less than the discovery which would make the famous perpetuum mobile a reality. The French Academy dismissed such scientific projects since the 18th century, after more than a hundred similar claims about the same matter proved to be total failures.
But now, McCarthy and his colleagues are bringing that matter back to life. We have to fight public opinion, we have to fight the scientific community and we have to fight the energy industry. We couldn't pick a worse battleground.
Despite the lack of trust from most academics, 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.
The claim does rail against so much thinking from ordinary people, through the engineering community to the academic community, it's a prerequisite that this is accepted by science, and that this is embraced by science.
"Oh, goodness, what can I say?" said Martin Sevior, associate professor at Melbourne University's School of Physics. "It violates a very fundamental principle of physics, and flies in the face of 2000-years-plus of physics. It's an incredibly big claim."
But Steorn's chief executive, Sean McCarthy, insisted that scientists had already examined the technology and had said off the record that it worked.
"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," he told Ireland's RTE radio.
"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."
"We fully accept there is going to be cynicism surrounding this but what we're saying to the world of science is come and prove us wrong," said Steorn Chief Executive Sean McCarthy.
Over the past two to three years, 90% of the scientists the company asked to examine the technology refused. He said the 10% who investigated drew the same conclusion as the company that it can create energy.
Were throwing down the gauntlet with todays announcement now its over to the scientists to ensure that the real potential and benefits of our technology can be realised.
Mr. McCarthy said the results would be published regardless of the outcome.
We have to fight public opinion, we have to fight the scientific community and we have to fight the energy industry. We couldn't pick a worse battleground.
Barry Williams, of the Australian Skeptics, said he did not believe it. "They are not the first company to claim they have suddenly discovered the miraculous property of magnetism that allows you to get free energy."
It really goes against the current understanding of physics, but certainly not out of the question. What do you folks think? Hoax, or real?
jag
it wouldn't be the first ime i fell for something though
