Steorn gives up on free-energy, starts charging for USB-powered divining rods
By Thomas Ricker 
posted June 25th 2009 6:55AM
posted June 25th 2009 6:55AM
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Steorn makes me disappointed to be Irish.
You could have said the same thing about DeLorean
@Derry (um, appropriate name?): They also made them in Ireland, according to the Wikipedia entry.
@Sam: Northern Ireland.
@wjousts
Still part of Ireland ;)
Derry is actually my real name... my Dad was from Derry, and well... anyway.
I know they made them in Ireland, but it's an American company, isn't it? (wasn't it?)
Anyway, so long as mine can get to 88mph when I get around to buying one, I don't care who made it!
May be he is Irish but Celtic.
^_^
"Handheld and permandent fixtures" = almost engrish :D
"Still part of Ireland ;)"
Physically, maybe
This apparently is powered by leprechaun urine.
hey . . . it sure beats "free energy" . . .
HAHAHA!
So.... this is their outstanding Plan "B"...
Except that we don't know yet if the jury even got to examine anything. Also, the cracks are beginning to appear in the jury story - 22 were not unanimous. Many of the jury are unaccounted for and no-one is talking. Good journalism would have you asking questions instead of repeating the contents of emails sent to you.
You forgot to mention that Steorn are launching with or without a jury later this year.
Hope this story bites you in the ass.
JP
@ JP Morgan:
What? I'm confused - they're clearly scammers. And hey! Wanting people to get bit in the ass is definitely not very cool (trust me).
Did I read this article wrongly? I thought that Engadget, like most people, was skeptical of Steorn?
Actually all 22 jury members supported the verdict. Someone misread the jury's blog commenters list (of which I am member, because you need to sign up to comment) as a list of jury members. At the time there were 16. Now there are a lot. The only part of the story that doesn't make sense is that Steorn can manage to demonstrate the device to The Guardian and make all kinds of claims for its energy output, but the only thing they could provide the jury was some data on magnetic field measurements.
The fact that you state you dont know if the Jury got a chance to examine this thing and the fact that no one has seen this up and running tells the only story you need to know.
Why make it so hard to prove??
Seems very odd that you question the Journalism and not Steorn. You can claim they are launching later this year but that claim is about as credible as their other claims.
@marek
The papers and 955 of the blogs got it wrong. Only tonight has the jury admitted that some of their number did not vote as they "left for personal reasons" So the 22 quoted by the press as "unanimous" is utter BS.
Dont believe me? Fine. Resaerch it yourself. That's what's wrong with people - they see some crap on a website and they automatically take it at face value.
Wake up my little sheep.
What planet are you on?!
Um, somebody needs a 'jury' to identify bullshit as bullshit? Didn't we have a second law of thermodynamics for that?
I can't remember what kind of scam this was but presumably it was yet another effort on that level. There's one born every minute.
Note this is his first post, probably a Steorn employee.
Anyone noticed that the only supporters of steorn on this story are two commenters that have only signed up today? Astroturfing much? Just fuck off and think up a new way to scam people out of money.
test
This post is so ignorant and cheap I don't know where to start. Good job as always, I see.
Seán McCarthy???
WILL YOU FIX THE DAMN COMMENTING SYSTEM
not before you fix your caps lock key.
What's wrong with it?
Does it work in bright lights?
Wait, Orbo.. isn't that like soylent green?
ummm... they've been selling these things for about 6 months now.
It does make sense. Very sad indeed. I'm taking Steorn and Orbo off my Google Alerts.
HJ:O(
Steorn...
Disgust is the word that comes to mind.
Or how bout Hoax.
Or maybe, borderline, Criminals.
Magnetometer? It'll never work, because Magneto has that nifty helmet...
Get your laughs in now people, they are launching their free energy before the end of this year. The implications of the tech worldwide is not funny.
This article does not reflect journalism but blog regurgitation...
If this is true then great but they have gone about it totally all wrong. How hard can it be to reproduce a concept you have had the the works and working for years now.
They can take a running jump for all I care.
Engadget are showing these guys exactly for what they are, GOONS.
J.K from 'just kidding' I'm assuming.
Wait... People actually have computers that are worth $1,000? I thought that niche was too little to talk about...
Nope, they must have made a typo. All computers start at $1999 and up. Always. Especially at Engadget.
Was hoping someone could comment on their hall probe itself. Considering that it's supposed to replace a gaussmeter AND hall probe combo (not sure how they do that but their web site claims to) it looks like it's bargain priced, compared to ... http://www.gaussmeter.co.uk/hall-probes.html They ain't cheap. No electrical engineers on here today that can enlighten us?
I guess no one cares about the hall probe due to the shit that come before.
Marketing trick or scammers - Steorn now equals tarnished joke regardless of what comes after.
yeah the AC magnetometers online are cheap but hall probe DC magnetometers are really expensive. I wish I would have had this option a few years ago when I bought a 600 dollar bell labs teslameter.
Next up, the Pons-Fleischmann palladium plated USB cooler.
I would actually find this useful depending on the Resolution & accuracy, and if there's a calibration standard.
Right now I'm using the Lakeshore Hall Probes & Meters, and while it's nice that they use the Standard GPIB protocol, they're slow.
Ug just looked at the specs.
Horrible resolution
Gauss Range 0 to 1700 gauss
Gauss Resolution 3.64 gauss
Steorn, the scientologists of the free-energy movement.
Steorn - Supplying aliens with probes for over 10 million years.
Oh Steorn. Let me tell you.. You Suck!