The company is called Steorn, a Dublin technology company that claims to have discovered a technology that promises an infinite supply of totally clean energy. Steorn's breakthrough has dismissed as a hoax because it represents a perpetual motion device that completely shatters the law of physics that holds energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
Steorn has spent the last several months selecting a team of scientists who will begin in January to assess the technology and reveal their results to the public sometime in the spring.
Here is how the company describes its 'breakthrough':
"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."
It all seems way too good to be true but, if this is a hoax, it hasn't been exposed so far and, it seems, will now undergo independent testing.
Free, limitless, completely clean energy? That would be the answer to many of the greatest threats to our very survival. Somehow it seems too much to believe.
2 comments:
As Homer Simpson said: "In this house we obey the laws of Thermodynamics."
There is no such thing as a free lunch. I am entirely skeptical of this.
Hi Ed: I agree with your skepticism. That's why I waited months to write about this. What strikes me, though, is that this hoax, if it is one as I suspect, has gone on for so long.
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