Now, why is anybody getting so exhilerated by these things. Let's just sit and wait. My impression is, that these people at Steorn are technicians not scientists and sometimes people with a practical approach stumble over things without exactly knowing what's going on. Maybe it is just some kind of energy transformation and their gain is something elses loss they and we do not know about yet. Maybe they are just cheaters (but cheaters do not come up with a fake that does not work to start with in general). Who cares - there has been so much cheating in the scientiffic community (Korean chemical fusion, discovery of the "HIV Virus", photon teleportation etc.) that we simply should allow these people to put up their show and be heared.
@probex I agree, there is no scam here that I can see. They're not crying for investors, promising to return a small purchase a thousand times so that they can nickel and dime the world until they disappear. They're simply stating that they see what they think is over-unity.
There's much about magnetic forces that we still don't understand, and I see it as a possibility that this is a previously unknown property of magnetism which is still preserving the laws of thermodynamics but converting energy from a source we don't fully understand yet.
There have been numerous scientific advances throughout history that have been originally stated as impossible and heres, and many advances that were found completely by accident.
It is extremely arrogant and unscientific to say that we fully understand all interactions within our universe and that there could not possibly be anything that occurs outside of our current established scientific "laws". I put laws in quotes because our laws are not decided facts, they're simply repeatable observations, meaning that our laws will only be absolute when we have observed everything in the universe. Until then they may be very accurate and largely true but there will be exceptions to every rule (compare physics in the macro world to the micro world and nano world).
There is no harm here in waiting to see what comes of this, and if it actually works it could be a remarkable change to our world. If it doesn't work, well, we haven't really lost out on anything.
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Now, why is anybody getting so exhilerated by these things. Let's just sit and wait. My impression is, that these people at Steorn are technicians not scientists and sometimes people with a practical approach stumble over things without exactly knowing what's going on. Maybe it is just some kind of energy transformation and their gain is something elses loss they and we do not know about yet. Maybe they are just cheaters (but cheaters do not come up with a fake that does not work to start with in general). Who cares - there has been so much cheating in the scientiffic community (Korean chemical fusion, discovery of the "HIV Virus", photon teleportation etc.) that we simply should allow these people to put up their show and be heared.
@probex
I agree, there is no scam here that I can see. They're not crying for investors, promising to return a small purchase a thousand times so that they can nickel and dime the world until they disappear. They're simply stating that they see what they think is over-unity.
There's much about magnetic forces that we still don't understand, and I see it as a possibility that this is a previously unknown property of magnetism which is still preserving the laws of thermodynamics but converting energy from a source we don't fully understand yet.
There have been numerous scientific advances throughout history that have been originally stated as impossible and heres, and many advances that were found completely by accident.
It is extremely arrogant and unscientific to say that we fully understand all interactions within our universe and that there could not possibly be anything that occurs outside of our current established scientific "laws". I put laws in quotes because our laws are not decided facts, they're simply repeatable observations, meaning that our laws will only be absolute when we have observed everything in the universe. Until then they may be very accurate and largely true but there will be exceptions to every rule (compare physics in the macro world to the micro world and nano world).
There is no harm here in waiting to see what comes of this, and if it actually works it could be a remarkable change to our world. If it doesn't work, well, we haven't really lost out on anything.
@gorf1000 There is indeed a scam, they've been selling super overpriced garbage after convincing idiots that they're some high-tech breakthrough physics operation.
Like this: http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/steorn-gives-up-on-free-energy-starts-charging-for-usb-powered/
Not to mention ridiculous memberships like here:
http://www.steorn.com/skdb/legals/
The worst part is that idiots have actually given them money. Ugh.
@tekdemon overpriced? Find a graphing hall probe for under $1200. Their equipment isn't anything magical, but it is innovative and well priced.
€419 to learn about the principles of free energy is a rip off? I've paid more for a semester of bowling in college.