landru27
7th December 2006, 03:10 AM
These folks took out an ad in the Economist to proclaim their discovery of how to create "over unity" devices -- devices that produce more energy than they consume:
http://www.steorn.net/
Literally centuries of scientific thought (or, bias, if one wants to put it that way) says that such a thing is just flat out impossible, and of course if the claim is true, it implies changes to our world which are hard to overstate.
The only roadblock is that Steorn has not provided any evidence to back their claim. As one can read on their website, they have chosen to have their discovery validated by a jury of highly respected, highly credentialed scientific professionals before they make any specific information public.
I'm on the fence between wanting it to be true and my 'education' that it cannot possibly be true. The Steorn site has a forum, and many people who sound quite reasonable point out that every such sincere claim in the past has turned out to be a measurement error, brought on by the fact that the scientists simply had instruments unable to detect where the extra energy was originating from and/or going to.
At any rate, it's an exciting development to follow. I thought I'd post this here in case other forum members are as interested in it as I am.
http://www.steorn.net/
Literally centuries of scientific thought (or, bias, if one wants to put it that way) says that such a thing is just flat out impossible, and of course if the claim is true, it implies changes to our world which are hard to overstate.
The only roadblock is that Steorn has not provided any evidence to back their claim. As one can read on their website, they have chosen to have their discovery validated by a jury of highly respected, highly credentialed scientific professionals before they make any specific information public.
I'm on the fence between wanting it to be true and my 'education' that it cannot possibly be true. The Steorn site has a forum, and many people who sound quite reasonable point out that every such sincere claim in the past has turned out to be a measurement error, brought on by the fact that the scientists simply had instruments unable to detect where the extra energy was originating from and/or going to.
At any rate, it's an exciting development to follow. I thought I'd post this here in case other forum members are as interested in it as I am.