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Device built to characterize the Steorn magnet motor concept, which proves more energy output than is put into the system. (K-Toy Video; Aug. 30, 2007)

For many years Steorn has developed technology to help combat counterfeiting and fraud in the plastic card and optical disc industries.

In 2003 Steorn undertook a project to develop more efficient micro generators. Early into this project the company developed certain generator configurations that appeared to be over 100% efficient. Further investigation and development has led to the company's present all-magnet motor technology which allegedly produces free energy. The technology is patent pending.

On July 4, 2007, Steorn ran a widely publicized demo of their free energy prototype at the Kinetica Museum in London, promised to be streamed live around the world; but it opened with the device not working, spurring the skepticism. [1]

Bear in mind that even if the concept is sound, the important milestone (not yet achieved) is to derive a configuration for implementing the concept that is cost-effective and reliable.

On Feb. 4, 2009, they lifted the curtain once again, this time soliciting teams of engineers and commercial interests to become part of a developer group who will take a working principle and build embodiments which can then be implemented through license. [2]

On June 21, 2009, the Jury selected in 2006 to review the Steorn technology issued the verdict reached by the end of 2008, namely that the technology does not result in energy gain. However, Steorn remains optimistic that they will have a production model ready by the end of 2009. [3]

The company plans to demonstrate their technology via live video by the end of 2009. [4]

Many comments originally posted on this page have been moved to the discussion page corresponding to this page.

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About

Official Website

http://www.steorn.com

Latest Developments

Steorn Talks 17th December 2008 onwards - Steorn are set to unveil a programme of talks, starting in Dublin on the 17th of December 2008, involving a sequence of talks in universities around the world, including the US/Europe and the Middle East. Our 'talk' initiative is designed to give people within the technology development community an opportunity to understand the Orbo proposition and ask questions in a direct, face-to-face format.

'Free energy' firm generated €8m in funding - Steorn, the controversial Irish company which claims to have defied the basic laws of physics by developing "free energy" technology, secured over €8m in funding from a range of investors to continue its research in 2006, the Sunday Tribune has learned. (Sunday tribune; Aug. 10, 2008)

Videos

(1.49 Minutes)

Sean McCarthy, CoE of Steorn on TV Excerpts from PrimeTime, Google video, 11.33 minutes, Jan. 15, 2009. (YouTube; January 16, 2009)

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K-Toy Video

This video features Thieu Knapen, founder of Kinetron, referring to a gizmo he built to characterize Steorn's invention concept, to document whether or not it produced more energy out than was put in; and his surprize that it does work -- something he did not think was possible. He now is apparently involved in developing the technology to market. See his website: http://www.kinetron.nl/

Audio and parts of the video have been available since the beginning of this year, but this is the first time non-insiders get to see the full video.

On Sept. 1, 2007, an anonymous source wrote:

"The cat is out of the bag now, so I can freely point to the firm Kinetron as a partner of Steorn. It is K that makes the devices - S only designs them. In the video Knapen of K says he already, in the rig he constructed at Kinetron, was getting 25% and it was just the beginning - that was nearly a year ago. The problem was then it was the stop-start machine as seen in the video. It was found that continuous motion could also give a gain and would be simpler to build and maintain. They are seeking to perfect continuous motion as they want to run with that. After all - Kinetron is a supplier to Swatch and other giants. It is well known in the industry."

See K-Toy Video Discovered - Background and comments. (FreeEnergyTracker; August 30, 2007)

How Free Energy Works

(6:55 minutes)

How Free Energy Works - Steorn has developed all-magnet motor technology which produces free energy. The company's CEO, Sean McCarthy, has explained his theory and how it works. (YouTube; September 13, 2006)

Independent Verification

See Directory:Steorn Free Energy:Validation Recommendations - A page devoted to coming up with a listing of recommended testing procedures for use by the Steorn jury.

The Steorn website says:

During 2005 Steorn embarked on a process of independent validation and approached a wide selection of academic institutions. The vast majority of these institutions refused to even look at the technology; however, several did. Those who completed the testing have all confirmed our claims but none will publicly go on record.

On Aug 25, 2006, The Guardian Unlimited reports (from facility visit by Steve Boggan):

There have been no fewer than eight independent validations of their work conducted by electrical engineers and academics `with multiple PhDs' from world-class universities. But none of them will talk to me, even off the record. I am promised a diagram explaining how the system works, but then Steorn holds it back, saying its lawyers are concerned about intellectual property rights. And that European partner, the one with the moving, almost perpetual, prototypes? It won't talk to me either and Steorn has undertaken not to name it.

On October 11th, 2006, a page was opened on the Steorn website whose title is:

'Test methods applied to Steorn technology and results' . Here, one may scroll through slides, some of them movies, of ways to test the magnets in part of their device. More details are to be made available soon, according to Steorn.

On March 7, 2007, the Steorn website states:

Orbo produces free, clean and constant energy - that is our claim. By free we mean that the energy produced is done so without recourse to external source. By clean we mean that during operation the technology produces no emissions. By constant we mean that with the exception of mechanical failure the technology will continue to operate indefinitely.

The sum of these claims for our Orbo technology is a violation of the principle of conservation of energy, perhaps the most fundamental of scientific principles. The principle of the conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created or destroyed, it can only change form.

Because of the revolutionary nature of our claim, not only to the world of science but to the world in general, Steorn issued a challenge to the scientific community in August 2006 to test our technology and report their findings. The process of validation that has resulted from this challenge is currently underway, with results expected by the end of 2007.

Patents

Figs. 4-6 of Low Energy Magnet Actuator Patent application by Steorn. April 6, 2006.

Low Energy Magnet Actuator (patent application) - arrangement of magnets and a magnetic shield on a linear slide; the operative principle seems to be low-energy switching of the magnetic fields.
US2006066428A1 (pdf) U.S. patent application.

Abstract: A low energy magnet actuator allows magnetic fields to be turned on and off using a small amount of energy. The magnetic actuator according to the invention generally includes a base suitable for the support of a plurality of magnets. An actuatable shield is positioned in relation to the plurality of magnets so that it effectively blocks the magnetic field when it is positioned over at least one of the magnets. The magnetic fields of the plurality of magnets interact in a manner that allows low energy actuation of the shield.

Company Statement: The patent ... is not a patent on the core steorn technology. Due to the fact that the US patent office does not allow patents with this claim we have filed a sequence of patents wich describe various aspects of the technology.

This is 'patently untrue': a keyword search of American patent applications returns dozens (the latest filed on the 21st December 2006) of them which claim 'perpetual motion'. What grounds would the USPO have therefore for rejecting the Steorn claim? There are far sillier ones (including the 'classic' overbalancing wheel) on file. Art Dent.

The patent ... is at the PCT stage and hence is available to the public. Our other patents are currently pre-PCT and will move to the PCT phase (and hence be available to the public) in the near future. [5]

The Challenge

As published at http://www.steorn.net/en/technology.aspx?p=5

Steorn’s technology produces free, clean and constant energy. This provides a significant range of benefits, from the convenience of never having to refuel your car or recharge your mobile phone, to a genuine solution to the need for zero emission energy production. It also provides a secure supply of energy, since the components of the technology are readily available.

The technology is in a constant state of development. The company has focused for the past three years on increasing power output and the development of test systems that allow detailed analysis to be performed.

Steorn’s technology appears to violate the ‘Principle of the Conservation of Energy’, considered by many to be the most fundamental principle in our current understanding of the universe. This principle is stated simply as ‘energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form’.

Steorn is making three claims for its technology:

The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%.
The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts.
There is no identifiable environmental source of the energy (as might be witnessed by a cooling of ambient air temperature).

The sum of these claims is that our technology creates free energy.

This represents a significant challenge to our current understanding of the universe and clearly such claims require independent validation from credible third parties. During 2005 Steorn embarked on a process of independent validation and approached a wide selection of academic institutions. The vast majority of these institutions refused to even look at the technology; however, several did. Those who completed the testing have all confirmed our claims but none will publicly go on record.

In early 2006 Steorn decided to seek validation from the scientific community in a more public forum, and as a result have published the challenge in The Economist. The company is seeking a jury of twelve qualified experimental physicists to define the tests required, the test centres to be used, monitor the analysis and then publish the results.

Steorn has decided to publish its challenge in The Economist because of the breadth of its readership. "We chose it over a purely scientific magazine simply because we want to make the general public aware that this process is about to commence and to generate public support, awareness, interest etc for what we are doing."

Registration Deadline Passed

The registration deadline passed on Sep 8th, 2006. At that stage nearly 5000 had registered to become jury members, but initial sorting showed that only roughly 1000 of these had valid credentials. As of Sept 9th, 2006 Steorn has therefore entered the pre-phase-1 stage, where they "Analyze list of scientists, contact and verify interest, choose twelve and negotiate terms." When this phase is over, Phase 1 proper begins, when they will "Confirm that the Steorn technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%."

On Sept 13th, e-mails went out to (at least some of) the scientists who had applied to go on the jury, asking for details of their academic careers.

On Sept 27th, e-mails went out to (at least some of) the scientists who had applied to go on the jury, saying that midnight, 5th October 2006, had been set as the deadline for receipt of synopses. A shortlist should be generated from all the synopses received by the deadline, accorning to Steorn. From the 9th October 2006, Steorn intends to take about two weeks to contact applicants on the shortlist to judge their availability as potential jury members. From near the end of October 2006 Steorn should then start on the jury selection process.

NEC Involvement

On Aug. 19, 2006, the New Energy Congress was made aware of this challenge and phoned the company to offer its services in the validation process.

Licence to be made generally available and Jury process underway

On the 11th of January 2007 Steorn announced that they would make the licence for their device available to all interested parties, from individual enthusiasts to larger research organisations, for a 'nominal fee' after the validation process had been completed [6]. They also revealed that the jury process was now underway, but that no further news on the process would be forthcoming until the end of the first financial quarter of 2007 [7].

April 13, 2007 update on progress

update on progress - posted April friday 13th, 2007.
- Steorn/Orbo Core Technology update:
  - Orbo is based upon the principle of time variant magneto-mechanical interactions. The core output from our Orbo technology is mechanical. This mechanical energy can be converted into electrical energy using standard generator technology either by integrating such technology directly with Orbo or by connecting the mechanical output from Orbo to the generation technology. The efficiency of such mechanical/electrical conversions is highly dependent on the components used and is also a function of size.
  - Orbo technology is subject to continuous development. This development is focused on improving the manufacturability of the technology, production costs and power density. Orbo was initially developed as using stop-start mechanisms (with a power density of 0.5 Watts per cm3), Steorn is currently finalizing the development of constant motion systems and a significant improvement in power density is anticipated.

July 4, 2007; 10-day demonstration pending

Sean McCarthy preparing for major demo

(compiled from a couple of sources)
[If you can attend this event, and would be willing to report for PESN, please contact Sterling D. Allan.]

A demo will take place indoors at a single location in London, possibly the Kinetica Museum, and will last 10 days. Sean has stated that it will begin in the first week of July, and that it is intended to coincide with (and ride the wave of environment-friendly media attention generated by) Al Gore’s Live Earth concert on July 7th.

You won't have to rely on a video alone. A number of pretty decent physicists, engineers, and technical folks are going to see it in person and the demo will be open to the public at large in London for more than a week.

One expert is of particular interest: "Dr. Mike". Apparently, his trip is being paid by Steorn but he's a reputable, published authority with an independent view. He's taking with him a laptop equipped with data coupling gear and magnetometers, temperature sensors, accelerometers, and so on. Steorn has said they will allow him (and a few others) direct access to the device and even will allow some degree of disassembly (they told him to "take his screwdriver"). He signed a non disclosure agreement (NDA) which precludes him from revealing trade secrets but does not prevent him from expressing opinions about legitimacy, fraud, and the like. It now seems all of this takes place in the open more or less at the Kinetica Museum starting Wednesday.

You can follow everything at:

Also, for official updates one should consult

Botched Demo Start

Orbo Free Energy Demo Has Botched Start - Widely publicized pending demo of Steorn's free energy prototype at the Kinetica Museum in London, promised to be streamed live around the world, opens with the device not working and a no-show on the Orbo demo site, at least for the first 24 hours. A video now shows the device not running. (PESN; July 5, 2007)

July 6, 2007: demostration cancelled

Further to Steorn’s announcement yesterday (5th July) regarding the technical difficulties experienced during the installation of its “Orbo�? technology at the Kinentica Museum in London, Steorn has decided to postpone the demonstration until further notice. Over the next few weeks the company will explore alternative dates for the public demonstration (read more on Steorn site).

July 10, 2007; Orbo drawings

User "Axle" posted on the Steorn forum his best estimation based on the Orbo photos.

The "stator" is shown in green and blue, and contains a circular arrangement of eight magnets fit into slots around the periphery of a central cavity. In that cavity spins the "rotor", with four magnets around its circumference. The stator and rotor are connected by two bearings, seen in orange -- the weak links that, according to Sean, put an end to the demo.

Feb. 18, 2008

Sean McCarthy wrote:

Things are going very well, however we will not be preannouncing anything - when we launch everyone will know at the same time.

June 22, 2009 Jury Unaninmously Finds Against Steorn

--Penny Gruber 01:34, 23 June 2009 (PDT)

On June 21, 2009 Steorn's 22 member jury unanimously found that Steorn had failed to show any energy production from their devices.

Jury Announcement - Posted June 21, 2009 ( Original posting errantly stated January 20, 2009 ).

The unanimous verdict of the Jury is that Steorn's attempts to demonstrate the claim have not shown the production of energy.

Steorn acknowledges the jury's findings but in contradiction to their 2006 statements claim to be proceeding with launch of a product despite the verdict. Steorn's news page notes:

Jury Report

A blog has been set up by the members of the Steorn jury

With a click through to the actual piece.

Steorn News Page

Clicking through to the article Steorn quote CEO Sean McCarthy as stating "fully understood the frustration of the Jury members with respect to the time the process was taking."

Steorn's description of jury frustration is in stark contrast to three years ago when in 2006 when Steorn insisted their free energy claims were "Always proven to work". At that time Steorn claimed that their problem was getting scientists who had seen the effect to go on record. Steorn insisted they needed to anger the scientific world into giving Steorn a serious look.

After two and a half years of giving Steorn precisely the serious look they sought, the jury experts picked by Steorn themselves unanimously concluded that Steorn never demonstrated anything that generates ( creates ) energy. The jury's chairperson R.I. MacDonald posted the jury results to stjury.ning.com June 21. He errantly posted that the jury had concluded Jan. 20, 2009.

Steorn's response claims that the jury ended its work in late 2008. Steorn also claim that "during 2009 the company ( Steorn ) resolved the key technical problems related to the implementation of Orbo". Steorn offered no explanation of why in two and a half years they were unable to demonstrate the effect they had for years claimed was "always proven to work". Neither have Steorn explained why if they overcame their problems as stated, the jury still found Steorn unable to demonstrate energy production.

The jury's chairperson Dr. MacDonald explained that the jury only stopped work this last week on June 21, 2009:

Nobody felt threatened. The process stopped on 21 June when the announcement was posted. The jury is not privy to Steorn's plans.

The date of the original announcement was an error I have now corrected.

R.I.MacDonald

MacDonald comments on jury process

Steorn's comments can be found here:

Steorn Jury Report - Posted June 22, 2009.

Full text of Steorn's response:

Jury Report

Steorn today confirmed that the internet ‘blog’ stjury.ning.com had been posted on behalf of members of the Jury of scientists that Steorn had engaged to conduct an independent review of its Orbo Technology.

In a statement, Steorn CEO, Sean McCarthy said that “he was grateful to the Jury members for the time and effort that they had devoted to the process.”

McCarthy continued on to state that he “fully understood the frustration of the Jury members with respect to the time that the process was taking. Implementing Orbo in a reliable and consistent manner had remained a challenge for the organization, one that we had made no secret of. Due to these difficulties we had focused on providing the Jury with test data relating to the underlying magnetic effect behind Orbo. This work concluded at the end of 2008.”

McCarthy concluded by stating that “during 2009 the company had resolved the key technical problems related to the implementation of Orbo and is now focused on commercial launch towards the end of this year, at which time academic and engineering validation would be released concurrent with public demonstrations.

Not all of the original jurors stuck through the two and half year process. Others have elected not to publish bios on the jury blog site. Dr. MacDonald explains 16 juror bios on the jury site instead of 22.

Note: The Jury's site has since been taken offline.

Theoretical Physics

Theoretical Physics for Steorn's Free Energy Challenge - Tom Bearden presents some theoretical physics explanations that could support the recent revolutionary announcement of a free energy device by the Irish company Steorn, who claim to have an all-magnet motor. (PESWiki; Aug. 25, 2006)

Software Modeling

Question: Does their invention match the known models of magnetism, or contradict them. In other words, could they simulate their invention in a simulator? -- Nathan Allan (April 28, 2007)
Answer: Yes, we use an FEA package called Flux3D from Cedrat (http://www.cedrat.com). I should point out that the system does require some code changes in order to demonstrate the effect which is based around Magnetic Viscosity. -- Sean McCarthy, Steorn (Apr. 29, 2007)

In the News

Steorn Press Releases

Steorn Press Releases

Steorn Blog

PES Network Coverage

Featured: Magnet Motors / Steorn >
Steorn plans Orbo free energy demo in 2009 - Having solved a problem with bearings, coming up with a magnetic bearing system that can handle the stresses that would destroy regular bearings, Steorn is nearing readiness to give a public display of various Orbo systems via a live video-stream from location. (PESN; Sept. 27, 2009) (Comment)

Featured: Magnet Motors > Steorn >
Steorn Jury issues verdict: no excess energy - After nearly three years of review, the jury selected by Steorn to validate their claim to a free energy device has issued a verdict: Steorn's process does not produce energy. Despite the negative results of this jury, Steorn continues to hope that they will have such a product available to go into production by the end of this year. (PESN; June 28, 2009) (Comment at Examiner.com)

Featured: Magnet Motors > Steorn >
Steorn Raises the Curtains - The company that stirred the planet in 2003 with their claim of a magnet motor technology, today posted two videos, announcing that are soliciting teams of engineers and commercial interests to become part of a developer group of 300 to prepare the technology for market rollout. (PESN; Feb. 4, 2009)

Magnet Motors > Steorn Forum Members Post Their Own Magnet Motor Demo Video - A couple of forum members have been kicking around ideas for how to build an all-magnet motor with no other motive force. One of them shot a video showing acceleration of the device, but he doesn't seem to realize what he's accomplished. (PESWiki; Jan. 5, 2008)

Orbo Free Energy Demo Has Botched Start - Widely publicized pending demo of Steorn's free energy prototype at the Kinetica Museum in London, promised to be streamed live around the world, opens with the device not working and a no-show on the Orbo demo site for the first 24+ hours. (PESN; July 5, 2007)

Steorn announces plans for widespread deployment of its free energy technology post-validation - Following the scientific validation of the technology presently under way by the academic jury, Steorn will be making its intellectual property available concurrently via the Internet to facilitate rapid development. (PESN; Jan. 12, 2007)

Steorn Finalizes Contracts with Validation Jury - Twelve qualified scientists have signed contracts to design a test procedure to properly analyze the free energy technology of Steorn, then report the results, laying to rest the controversy. (PESN; Dec. 2, 2006)

Nominated Forum Member Visits Steorn CEO - Describes a viable company facility with lots of space and lots of money. Inspected two jury member files and later confirmed their existence and credentials. Saw info on manufacturer. (PESN; Nov. 20, 2006)

Steorn completes jury selection to test magnet motor - Steorn announces that they have selected twelve jury members composed of scientists and academics to test its free energy technology. More than 5000 people applied, and 492 were determined to be "qualified scientists/engineers." (PESN; Nov. 11, 2006)

Steorn scientific jury selection progressing - Company rocked the world in August with its announcement of a free energy device using permanent magnets, calling for a jury of skeptical, qualified scientists to confirm their results. Following an overwhelming response, Steorn will now begin contacting applicants on its shortlist to establish their availability. (PESN; Oct. 5, 2006)

Steorn calls time on application process for scientists to test free energy technology - Company will stop taking applications on Sept. 8, to serve on 12-member jury to review magnet motor free energy device, which science has hitherto said is impossible. Expects jury-designed testing to begin by end of the year. (PESN; Aug. 25, 2006)

Steorn to Push Tipping Point for Magnet Motor Technology - Company to select jury of 12 hard-core skeptics with high academic qualifications to review existing data, then design testing procedure, test, and publish the results; to solidify the credentials of a radical, new energy approach. (PESN; Interview; Aug. 21, 2006)

Other Press Coverage

Google News > Steorn 24 stories as of Aug. 18, 2006.
http://digg.com/search?section=news&s=orbo
http://www.steorn.net/en/news.aspx?task=coverage&p=2

Magnet Motors / Steorn >
Steorn renews perpetual promise to show free energy machine - A skeptical commentary by a major tech news source, covering the development we covered two weeks ago. (ZDNet; Oct. 12, 2009)

Steorn Listed in Wired's Top 10 Vaporware 2007 Awards - "Accolades (and raspberries) to the most-prized products that were promised but never delivered". (Wired; Dec. 20, 2007)

10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets - Orbo is second on the list. Steorn, the Irish company behind Orbo, is only the latest in a long line of deluded, incompetent or fraudulent firms to claim the scalp of the laws of thermodynamics. (Wired; Nov. 17, 2007) (See Slashdot discussion)

The perpetual myth of free energy (BBC News; July 9, 2007)

News List of news stories surrounding the July 4-8, 2007 Botched Demo

Steorn's Orbo "free-energy" machine demonstrated! - (EnGadget; July 4, 2007)
- Dublin company to unveil 'free energy' device (RTE News; 4 July 2007)
- Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention (Slashdot; July 4, 2007)
Irish technology claims energy breakthrough (Silicon Republic; Ireland; July 4, 2007)
Steorn reveal date: Friday, April 13th - Steorn promises to be "releasing the update on the Jury process and so on" of its seemingly first-law-of-thermodynamics-denying Orbo "free energy" product on April 13th. Steorn has been promising technical information about the invention and jury results for a while now, originally saying "first quarter" 2007. (Engadget; Apr. 10, 2007)

AP: Steorn: Engineers Claim Machine Makes Free Energy (video) - (posted at YouTube Sept. 12, 2006)

Free Energy? - (FirstScientist; Sept. 14 2006)

Free Energy from Magnets? (Free Market News Network, FL; Sep 13, 2006)

Race On to Prove Free Energy (video) - Irish engineers say they have built a device that creates free and clean energy. Until now most scientists have dismissed their claims, saying that they break the most basic laws of physics. So the inventors have come up with a unique challenge. (Sky News; UK; Sept. 9, 2006)
- YouTube (posted Sept. 8, 2006)

How Free Energy Works (video) - Steorn has developed all-magnet motor technology which produces free energy. The company's CEO, Sean McCarthy, has explained his theory and how it works. (Sky News; UK; Sept. 9, 2006)

FOX Discussion about Free Energy - Sean says here that the scientists who have reviewed this technology thus far have not been able to identify the source of the energy. (YouTube; Aug. 28, 2006)

Inventor keeps his perpetual motion machine under a cloak of invisibility - It is some form of an all-magnet motor and the only clue that he will give is that it looks like “a grandfather clock, without its pendulum‿. (Times; UK; Aug. 28, 2006)

Steorn Challenges the First Law of Thermodynamics - Cold Fusion champion, Steve Krivit, interviews Sean McCarthy. "My conclusion at the end of our talk is that I have no idea what to make of all this." (ZPEnergy; August 25, 2006)
- Introduction to the interview and two sound clips (2:47 minutes)
- Full interview - (51 minutes, includes introduction)

The scientists who claim they can create free energy - On-site visit. "There is a test rig with wheels and cogs and four magnets meticulously aligned so as to create the maximum tension between their fields and one other magnet fixed to a point opposite. A motor rotates the wheel bearing the magnets and a computer takes 28,000 measurements a second. The magnets, naturally, act upon one another. And when it is all over, the computer tells us that almost three times the amount of energy has come out of the system as went in." (The Guardian Unlimited; UK; Aug. 25, 2006)
- These men think they're about to change the world - Mirror at Steorn.net (The Guardian; August 25, 2006)
- Mirrored at The Hindu
- LIMITLESS CLEAN, FREE ENERGY Refers to Guardian story. (FreeMarketNews.com; August 28, 2006)

BBC4 Radio Interview(audio) - Sean McCarthy interviewed August 28, 2006

Steorn: A Game or Not A Game, That Is The Question - The social, economic, and political ramifications are huge. Not to mention the scientific ones. (Alternate Reality Gaming Network (ARGN); August 24, 2006)

Free, Clean, Unlimited Energy for All? - A company in Dublin, Ireland claims to have developed a machine that, if true, would be one of the most significant innovations in human history, changing the lives of every person on the planet. Top scientists are not buying it. (ABC News; Aug. 23) [Cites PESN story]

Steorn's free energy seems curiously expensive - Rupert Goodwins - Amazing claims require amazing proof. A good Web site, top-notch PR and costly adverts don't quite measure up. (ZDNet; UK; Aug. 22, 2006)

Get Your Free Energy Here! - A firm in Dublin claims to have invented a technology that extracts "free energy" from magnetic fields... (Scientific American; Aug. 22, 2006)

Perpetual Motion Claim Probed - Sean McCarthy believes his small Irish high-tech company has overturned one of physics' most fundamental laws. (Wired; Aug. 21, 2006)

Scientists flock to test 'free energy' discovery - A man who claims to have developed a free energy technology which could power everything from mobile phones to cars has received more than 400 applications from scientists to test it. (The Observer; UK; Aug. 20, 2006)

Irish energy miracle 'a joke' - "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." (The Age; Australia; Aug. 20, 2006)

Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology - An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy. (Yahoo News; Aug. 18, 2006)

Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology - An Irish company threw down the gauntlet on Friday to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy. (PhysOrg; Aug. 18, 2006)

Fox New interview with Steorn CEO - About 3 minute interview with Niel Cavuto on Fox News

Discussions

See Talk:Directory:Steorn Free Energy - many comments, skeptic views, rebuttals, theories, etc.

Forums

Steorn website forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/steorn_test - The purpose of this discussion list, overseen by the New Energy Congress, is to come up with recommendations for consideration by the Steorn jury, that they might use in analyzing the Steorn free energy device. (Aug. 30, 2006)
Irish Company Claims Free Energy (Slashdot; August 21, 2006)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/steorn/ [dormant and spam infested] - Discuss the revolutionary energy claims made by Steorn
http://freeenergytalk.com/ - Free Energy Discussion Forum
http://fizzx.com/ - The (independent) Steorn Replications Board

Dr. Mike Observations

It's all in Sean's Head

On July 11, 2007, a skeptic from the Stoern forum who was invited to the London demo, provided the following assessment:

I will write up a full report and post it on my own web site in a few days. I wrote something on the plane which is good but not complete. I suspect one could write a book about all the experiences we've had here.

My opinion - and it really is only my opinion - is that Sean lives in a world of delusion. His greatest strength is the ability of convince people of things, and it is also his greatest weakness. I am certain that Sean has seen a "start - stop" device operating. That it never existed outside his mind doesn't matter.

There are a lot of questions that remain unanswered, but let's look at a few simple ones.

Why would Steorn send a skeptical forum rep to see their core technology if Steorn did not really believe it? As others have pointed out, if this were a hoax or scam, something would have worked. From my direct observations of the people, there is true belief here.

Why would Sean claim that 5 bearings were broken and he sent someone to Eindhoven to get more? Because he saw it happen. Like the story about the famous mathematician who talked to people nobody else could see (the movie was "A Beautiful Mind") I think Sean has really seen things work. The rest of us never will.

Sean said at one point that the jury validation was the most important thing to Steorn. At this point I think the jury is also in his mind. He probably talks to them often. He did say they have not seen any devices. How could he have a demo, have the jury be the most important thing to the company, and not have had any jury member see anything? Because nothing exists.

As I said, there are a great many details and questions to answer, and probably we'll never get answers to the more interesting ones. It was an honor and a privledge to have met everyone here and at Kinetica and I will do my best to get all the parts back to everyone who loaned me stuff and made it possible for me to help out.

Steorn Ltd.

Steorn is a privately-owned technology research company, with 30 shareholders. Over thr last three years, the company has spent GBP2.7m developing their "free energy" technology. The advertisement in the Economist cost GBP75,000. [8]

In fact, there are 2 companies registered at the stated address: Steorn Ltd, registered on the 25th July 2000 and Steorn Nominees Ltd, registered on the 16th August 2005. The last Annual Returns deadline for the first company was the 30th September 2004, but the latest accounts were supplied on the 31st December 2003. The latest Annual Returns deadline for the second company was the 16th July 2006 and the latest accounts were declared on the 31st December 2006. The status of both companies is described as being 'normal'. With which company is everybody dealing? Art Dent

Contact

Steorn Ltd.
Docklands Innovation Park
East Wall Road, Dublin 3
Ireland

Tel: +353-1-4871000 / Fax: +353-1-4871001
E-mail: info@steorn.com

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