What is wrong with what Steorn is doing?

[Horatius]

I, for one, welcome the decisive ass-covering leadership Sean has shown!

 

[Seren_]

The forum is now gone, Sean's message can't be accessed anymore.

There is only a form with login/password but I doubt it leads anywhere. I am not registered so I can't tell.

That was really quick, about 2 or 3 hours between the warning and the closing. Steorn seems to be in a hurry...

And of course, no explanation in the 'News' section.

I wonder what a regular Steorn forum reader will thing when trying to access the forum today or tomorrow.

It definitely smells like a cover up.

 

[Pantaz]

The forum is now gone, Sean's message can't be accessed anymore. ...

Someone saw this coming and started a new forum,
"Village of the Banned - Not the [Word removed at the request of Steorn] Forum"

 

[Seren_]

Someone saw this coming and started a new forum,
"Village of the Banned - Not the [Word removed at the request of Steorn] Forum"

Thank you for the link Pantaz.

I want a nice and cozy place to follow the latest Orbo's revelations (or lack of).

 

[Foolmewunz]

Thank you for the link Pantaz.

I want a nice and cozy place to follow the latest Orbo's revelations (or lack of).

Well, "cozy" is okay, but don't make it too warm or the spindizzy won't work.

 

[Aepervius]

For those still following they are now pretending to gear up for a show/demo at the end of the year. If the last 3 years are an indication, i expect a no-show. Youtube Steorn now preparaing for end of year demo with ads...

 

[BillyJoe]

Youtube Steorn now preparaing for end of year demo with ads...

"all great truths start off as blasphemies"

All blasphemies do not end up as great truths.


There's only 19 days left of "this year" - they'd better hurry!

 

[Foolmewunz]

With Sean, it's usually a case of "follow the money". I'll not be surprised to find that he's got to get something out there in front of the few suckers victims shareholders before the end of the fiscal year.

The Middle East gambit seems to have garnered him nothing, visibly. Maybe he picked up some mad sheik oil money? I see no other reason to travel that far for another non-demonstration. Now this nonsense? It'll continue until there are no more suckers willing to giv him money, I fear.

 

[Michael C]

For those still following they are now pretending to gear up for a show/demo at the end of the year. If the last 3 years are an indication, i expect a no-show. Youtube Steorn now preparaing for end of year demo with ads...

I didn't see anything about an end of year demo: just a video from February with three guys presenting their engineering credentials and telling us that Orbo was producing more energy than was put into it. Did I miss something?

 

[BillyJoe]

I didn't see anything about an end of year demo

Hmmm, yes, Sean Mc Carthy said only that he would be releasing the technology to engineers/developers this year.

 

[Foolmewunz]

Well, they communicate chiefly by rumor, innuendo, and gossip over at Steorn.

I think this is what he's referring to.


http://dispatchesfromthefuture.com/

Since Sean and friends have abandoned their website(essentially), this is how communications come about for Orbo - from bloggers who claim to be involved or who know a guy who knows a guy whose brother-in-law saw a demo once.

 

[not daSkeptic]

I think one of the comments posted on the videos is a good one. Why does it seem like these videos are targeted at laypeople rather than experts?

 

[Seren_]

Found on a blog

Might become a link to the live demo..

It is offline for the moment.

Edit : It was live a few minutes ago, very bad quality overall, it looks like the Kinetica demo. I took a few snapshots.

Edit2 : Apparently you can find all the link you need on the official steorn website.

 

[Darat]

What I found interesting is the way he set up the excuse reason as to way the generator doesn't return more energy than the battery puts out!

 

[Mojo]

Edit : It was live a few minutes ago, very bad quality overall, it looks like the Kinetica demo.

That didn't look like any of the Kinetica demo that I remember seeing.

 

[Michael C]

No, it's not like the Kinetica demo. There's a big difrerence: in the more than two years since that fiasco, Sean has learnt something: Orbo will run longer if it's attached to a battery!

If you go to the official Steorn website, you can read/hear all about it. In a promotional video, Sean explains that Orbo is attached to a battery but he claims that it's constantly recharging that battery. So we see a thing spinning (doesn't seem to be actually doing any work) attached to a battery. How long can you keep a flywheel spinning on low-friction bearings with a single battery? Days? Weeks? How easy is it to have the live demo off-line for just the time it takes to change the battery?

 

[Darat]

That's what I was referring to in my post above - he has already said that some of the energy is converted and then lost as heat so that would be why the system can never quite recharge the battery....

 

[Horatius]

That's what I was referring to in my post above - he has already said that some of the energy is converted and then lost as heat so that would be why the system can never quite recharge the battery....

That's just so......evil. He's going to convince people his PM machine works by admitting it isn't actually PM. Brilliant, and it will probably work!

 

[Mojo]

That's what I was referring to in my post above - he has already said that some of the energy is converted and then lost as heat so that would be why the system can never quite recharge the battery....

Damn those laws of thermodynamics!

 

[a_unique_person]

What Steorn is doing wrong is boring the pants off me.