What is wrong with what Steorn is doing?

[BillC]

So it is. I missed that detail. Thanks.

 

[a_unique_person]

I just had to check, have they taken the money and run yet?

 

[BillyJoe]

Let me know when you've checked.

 

[Professor Yaffle]

Last news I could find on them was in August:

http://www.tribune.ie/article/2008/aug/10/free-energy-firm-generated-8m-in-funding/

 

[CFLarsen]

Only time will tell.

Better to reserve negative comments and insinuations until the facts are in.

I think the facts are in.

Any comments on Steorn's lack of evidence, T'ai Chi?

 

[a_unique_person]

Last news I could find on them was in August:

http://www.tribune.ie/article/2008/aug/10/free-energy-firm-generated-8m-in-funding/

So they are taking the money, but not all at once so it looks too obvious.

 

[BillyJoe]

Asked why it is taking so long to complete, a spokesman for the company said the process is a "complicated one, and has been affected by continued development of the technology by Steorn".

In other words, the free energy stubbornly refuses to appear.

 

[a_unique_person]

In other words, the free energy stubbornly refuses to appear.

That little model he was holding in his hands looked very simple.

 

[Grimoire]

In other words, the free energy stubbornly refuses to appear.

Well, there is just that small issue of friction. Once they manage to get a hold of some completely frictionless bearings, they are set! Of course, I do wonder why they even need to do anything else, since they already claimed they had a working model that could achieve 400% efficiency.

 

[Darat]

I heard the technical problem was with training the demons to sort the molecules, the pesky things keep eating them.

 

[BillyJoe]

Well I think Free Energy is being a little ungrateful. After all the love and attention he has been getting from his host, he still refuses to come to the party. What a spoil sport.

 

[a_unique_person]

I love a mission statement

With an enviable track record and a reputation as the 'go-to' organisation for companies wishing to reliably take technology from concept to reality, Steorn has turned its experience to its own new energy technology — Orbo.

Forums still got a few recent posts.

If anyone asks, I'll deny I'm here.

Like BOR said, it's like watching a car crash in slow motion. I wish someone would press fast-forward though.

 

[Snadert]

Steorn 'talks'

Steorn Talks
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.
The programme of talks starts in Dublin on the 17th December 2008 and will involve a sequence of talks in universities around the world, including the US/Europe and the Middle East.

Anybody been in direct, face-to-face contact with Sean lately?

 

[Professor Yaffle]

The talk in Dublin:

http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/2008/12/steorn-talks-at-dit-main-points-for.html

 

[Darat]

I see:

"Working designs have been built by Steorn"

Have they tried these under harsh conditions, such as lights in a gallery?

And really if they did have a working design there would be no need for all the other crap they keep going on about.

 

[Mojo]

I see:

"Working designs have been built by Steorn"

Have they tried these under harsh conditions, such as lights in a gallery?

And really if they did have a working design there would be no need for all the other crap they keep going on about.

That's hardly a new claim; in August 2006 they showed a reporter from the Guardian a machine that they claimed was "285% efficient".

I like the claim, repeated in the comments, that "Orbo's process of commercialization starts this year". What do they think Steorn have been doing for the last two and a half years?

 

[volatile]

Did anyone brave the "Click here to hear the audio of the talk" link?!

 

[Michael C]

Did anyone brave the "Click here to hear the audio of the talk" link?!

I listened to the first few minutes: sounded pretty boring. Once more Sean trotted out "We got very repeatable measurements": as usual he wasn't bothered by the fact that he has absolutely no evidence for that. He also admitted that he and his colleagues didn't really know anything about magnets.

The article quotes him as saying "In February we will be asking 300 engineers / engineering organisations to start replicating this stuff". It's February now: I trust that all those engineers are hard at work

 

[volatile]

I listened to the first few minutes: sounded pretty boring. Once more Sean trotted out "We got very repeatable measurements": as usual he wasn't bothered by the fact that he has absolutely no evidence for that. He also admitted that he and his colleagues didn't really know anything about magnets.

The article quotes him as saying "In February we will be asking 300 engineers / engineering organisations to start replicating this stuff". It's February now: I trust that all those engineers are hard at work

So they're still running the same spiel as they were nearly 2 years ago when this thread started? They're literally no further on, are they? Still noting from the "judges", nothing on review, no working models, no technical papers, nothing. And they're still drawing crowds?

 

[Michael C]

The scam now seems to be that they will try to sell the plans. They've said that they won't produce the machines themselves, but that "Specific designs / configurations / blueprints will be available to be built by engineers". Available at what price? They don't say.

I suppose that people gullible enough to pay for a license will get a set of plans for a spinning wheely thing that doesn't work.