Ok, so for all of the enginerds out there, I need someone to look at this and call shenanigans. It is yet another supposed perpetual motion device, better known as a free-energy device, since its goal is to provide energy with NO inputs or outputs other than clean free energy.
Mythbusters dedicated an entire show to debunking these things, showing that not a single existing device actually yielded more energy then was put into the device.
Now the crazy thing here is that a company (Steorn) has been talking for months that it was creating such a device. People have been saying to put up or shut up, and they have now put up (almost). They are installing the device into a museum of motion in London (Kinetica Museum) for a public review of the device. According to the interweb, the live demo will be available via video on the Steorn website at 6PM EDT. They claim the technology utilizes “time variant magneto-mechanical interactions”. Anyone care to comment? I am VERY skeptical.
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OK, I am beginning to smell something and it stinks…
So there is a “delay” due to technical difficulties. The people at Steorn say that they believe the device does not work because of the “intense lights” around it for the cameras.
So in the press release they should say that the device can work anywhere unless a camera with a light is aimed directly at it?
See the demo here… http://www.astream.com/live/steorn/camera4.html if it ever goes live.
I just checked out the Kinetica Museum site. The demo is delayed until further notice. Looks like vaporware. Too bad. Free energy. That’d be cool.
Yes, evidently Steorn has made an announcement that they no longer blame the lights in the museum. That the problem lies somewhere else (like the whole conservation of energy thing)… Apparently they are very afraid that after this no one will take them seriously. They have said they will have a display, but they will not give out a date until they have a working model already developed.
To good to be true.