Yesterday we reported on the seemingly physics laws smashing news of an Irish company; Steorn (www.steorn.com) (already have a wikipedia page too) who claim to have created a free energy creating mechanism. Wonderful. Here’s their slightly too slickly produced video.
Here’s a link to the patent for the device, filed on WIPO. But is this just a hoax? Here’s an article from 2002 on cnn.com on a seemingly similar story.
The tags the video was uploaded along with are:
zero point energy, zero point, whackjob, steorn, snake oil, scam, pyramid scheme, pure baloney, perpetual motion, nutters, not possible, manipulative, malarky, learn physics, kooks,
Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three “laws” of prediction:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
And Homer said:
Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Thanks John. Found some of the links here on digg here, it’s on the front page at the moment and has 245 comments and counting.