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Steorn has placed a notice in their web site stating that they have extended their stay at the Waterworks Centre in Dublin in order to continue testing of their technology by interested parties.

“The Waterways will remain open for a further three weeks, until Friday 19th March, due to additional applications from third parties interested in testing Orbo technology.”

This indicates that there has been a high level of interest in Orbo from parties that Steorn considers worthwhile working with. This means, of course, that the wait continues, but it will be interesting to what results from this testing period.

Since the end of Steorn’s public demonstration in Dublin last month there has not been too much in the way of news from Steorn.

They announced at the last live experiment that during the month of February independent testers would be able to come to the Waterways Centre and test Orbo devices for themselves. Apparently that is what is going on at the moment.

Last week Steorn issued a press release which stated:

On 30th January 2010 Steorn announced that it would make Orbo technology available for testing at the Waterways Visitor Centre.

Since then Steorn has been hosting third-party testing and finalising calorimetry tests.  This third-party testing will continue until the end of February.

Steorn will make the results of the calorimetry tests available alongside other test data in the coming weeks. These results will be pivotal to a widespread uptake of Developer (and ultimately, Commercial) Licenses. Steorn will open the SKDB to the general engineering community after these test results have been released.

Developers wishing to come and test Orbo technology at the Waterways should make a booking at http://www.steorn.com/demo/bookings/

The opening of the SKDB to developer has been delayed then until the release of independent testing results. Until then I am expecting that public information from Steorn will be limited.

You don’t have to look to hard to see economic problems everywhere. The world is floundering in debt: countries, states and individuals are facing a dire situation where borrowing for the needs of today have caused a great deal of uncertainty about tomorrow. Economic activity has shrunk during the worldwide recession, unemployment is growing and many economists see little prospect of a rapid turnaround.

Yet with the advent of Orbo technology, unveiled by Steorn recently, we have the prospect of a game-changing element introduced into the world economy. Yes, the technology is in its infancy and certainly it will take time and engineering effort to bring practical products into the world, but eventually a source of free energy could have a dramatic and permanent impact on economic activity everywhere.

Here are some possible implications.

1. Much greater self-reliance for individuals if the power grid is no longer necessary to supply consumers’ electrical needs.

2. With that self reliance would come less of a need to labor as much for many of the necessities and luxuries of life. How much of people’s income is currently spent on energy either directly (electric bill, gasoline) or indirectly (e.g. the costs built in to transporting goods)?

3. Costs for governments everywhere could reduce significantly with the burden of paying for welfare decreasing as many basic needs of citizens (utilities, transportation) become much cheaper.

5. Costs of raw materials would likely decrease if they could be extracted and transported with free energy. This would lead to reduced costs of goods and services.

6. There could be a technology boom beyond anything we have seen to date. New devices with internal power sources will surely be developed, and no doubt ingenuity and invention will come up with all kinds of new products made possible by Orbo technology previously thought impossible or impractical.

7. Those companies and nations who could quickly transition to producing high quality orbo-based products would see the most change coming about.

8. Infrastructure needs would change dramatically. No longer would economic development be dependent upon the availability of power stations and power lines. With transportation costs decreasing there would be less of a need for companies to be located close to major population centers and transportation hubs. Communities could be affected as these infrastructure and transportation needs change. It may be more desirable for people to live further away from population centers as transportation costs decrease and off-grid power sources are available.

These are just a few thoughts about some of the possible repercussions of Orbo- based technology becoming a viable alternative to current energy sources. Steorn has let the cat out of the bag now, and it will be fascinating to see what the engineering community does with this technology. It could make a dramatic difference to our current economic outlook.

Now the groundbreaking demonstration from Steorn is over, it’s very interesting to see the response from major and minor media outlets. There really is none.

Following Steorn’s failed 2007 demonstration in London there were plenty of reports from major media sources reporting on how another free energy claim had gone down in flames. Following this weekend’s demonstration however, it is hard to find any news about it outside of the few blogs and forums that have been paying close attention for some time.

I received this interesting comment on yesterday which illustrates how some Steorn enthusiasts could be feeling right now:

“It’s a disgrace that one of the biggest break-throughs in technology – possibly since fire – has gone so unnoticed. Steorn have done an amazing job at bringing this technology to market in the face of undignified ridicule.

Their recent demonstrations have now proven their claims without shadow of a doubt, and any sceptics have been invited to examine the readings for themselves to rule out the only other possible explanation; which is fraud. How much longer can the world sit back quoting the rules of laws of thermodynamics in the face of a working prototype? Orbo will change our lives, embrace it and increase research in this area!”

The lack of attention is not seeming to bother Steorn too much. Throughout the public demonstration process they have said that the people whose attention they are trying to attract are not the media, or the general public, but the engineering an product development communities. They are executing their business plan as they said they would, opening the SKDB yesterday and signing up people to come to the Waterways Centre in Dublin to run tests on their Orbo devices.

What will it take for mainstream science and the mainstream media to start paying attention? My guess that it will require  a respected and well known individual or entity in the scientific or engineering world would test Orbo and confirm what Steorn is claiming. And it might take a number of such claims to really make people stand up and take notice. Perhaps even that might not be enough — and only working Orbo products will be convincing.

Sean McCarthy has said that he has always expected validation of Orbo to be a process, not a one time event, and so far he is right.

For those who missed Saturday’s demo from Steorn, the video has been released and posted on Steorn’s web site. During the live stream of the video, the counter showing the number of live viewers was at around 900 — relatively few, I thought, considering the magnitude of what Steorn had said they would be showing.

Perhaps in time when people have had time to analyze the information presented, and after independent tests have been done, and test results released, these videos will generate much more interest — and it could well be that they one day achieve the status of being truly historic as they do seem to show that Steorn has discovered a way to create overunity technology.

If you have spent much time looking at the internet chatter going on following Steorn’s latest (and final) demo, you will see that there are a number of observers who were underwhelmed. Many people it seems were hoping to see something with more of a “wow” factor than what Steorn displayed yesterday. (According to steorn.com the video of the event will be posted February 1)

So today on Steorn’s public forum CEO Sean McCarthy spent quite a bit of time responding to some of the criticisms and laying out the reasons why the demo was presented in the way it was. You can see his comments at this link – McCarthy posts under the name “Steorn”.

Here are some excerpts of his comments in that thread.

“Ok – a little entertaining to read some of the comments this morning. Let me state something very clearly here. The system demonstrated last night is clear evidence of over-unity, or clear evidence of fraud. We either rigged the scope or we did not – and we did not…

“Ok, we are not into showing magic tricks, so if you want flashing lights go some place else. The experiments shown are targeted at a specific audience, indeed the final nature of how to demonstrate the core effect came not from Steorn, but from the consensus opinion of those people who visited the waterways who expressed an interest in developing and had a capability to develop…

“I am not getting defensive at all – quite the opposite in fact – we have been ‘defending’ the technology for 3 years in the public arena. No more, we have shown the goods, there is no longer a question of ‘measurement’ error. Its real or fraud…

“The point about yesterday was how I started this thread (and how I will now leave it). We showed a significant energy result that can only be achived on the basis of the tech being real, or the experiment being rigged – a rigged experiment would be fraud and no doubt I would go to jail for that.”

There were a number of Q&A exchanges in this thread discussing particular details of the experiment , so I would recommend visiting the forum for detailed discussion. The quotes above provide the general position Steorn is taking.

On Steorn’s website there is now a place to sign up if you want to go in person to the Waterways centre in Dublin and test the Orbo devices in person. On the sign-up form, Steorn requests that potential testers provide their educational or professional background so it appears that they will be screening for testers they feel will be suitable candidates.

Did the demo provide conclusive proof of overunity? Apparently many are not convinced, but Sean McCarthy seems to be quite satisfied with what they showed and has said that this will be the extent of their public disclosure of the technology.

So it does appear that for many questions and doubts still linger and it remains to be seen how many have seen enough evidence to take the plunge and become paid up members of the SKDB. So while the waiting game for Steorn’s public revelations is over, the one for real-world useful Orbo powered products has just begun.

Steorn’s demonstration to ‘prove overunity’ took place as scheduled and was broadcast via live streaming video. The video of the demo has not yet been loaded onto Steorn’s website or Youtube channel, but I would expect that would happen fairly soon.

In the meantime, here are a couple of links to reports that other bloggers have posted about the demo:

Steorn Over Unity Demo — Live Commentary

The Demo’s Done — Has Steorn Won?

We live in a day of media saturation — 24/7 discussion of all kinds things ranging from politics to technology to celebrity gossip. This week the attention of the media has been focused on (among other things) President Obama’s State of the Union Address, Apple’s reveal of the iPad, the ongoing efforts to bring relief in Haiti, economic woes worldwide, and so on.

Could it be, however, that one of the most important stories of our age is being largely ignored?  Steorn has announced that this Saturday they will be providing proof of overunity. For years they have claimed that they have figured out a way to create energy “from no apparent source” using magnetic interactions. They have promised that the day would come when they would reveal proof of this claim to the world and then launch their technology commercially, licensing their Orbo technology to product developers.

Well, the time has finally come. This Saturday at 4:00 p.m. in Dublin, Ireland, Steorn says they will be showing the the world proof of their claims. They apparently will demonstrat that more electrical energy will be produced by an Orbo device than is input.

If this is true, then we would be looking at a world changing event on Saturday, as no one has demonstrated overunity before, and conventional science says this is impossible. What would overunity technology mean for our world? Simply put, Steorn’s discovery could put an end to all the energy concerns that trouble us today. And beyond that, free energy would have a revolutionary economic and social impact that could lead to a completely different society. See here for a previous post that discusses these issues in more depth.

How many people will tune in to Steorn on Saturday? Probably a miniscule amount compared to those who watched the State of the Union Address, or Steve Job’s presentation yesterday. But if Steorn shows the real deal on Saturday, it could turn out be one of the most important presentations ever made. And it will be recorded on Youtube for posterity.

Well it couldn’t be a much more dramatic announcement. At Steorn.com, on successive multicolored screens in large letters moving against a swirling background we get this:

THIS SATURDAY
STEORN PRESENTS
THE FINAL DEMO
PROVING OVERUNITY
30th JANUARY
16:00 GMT
AT THE WATERWAYS CENTRE
WITH LIVE STREAMING
STEORN.COM

They are not holding anything back here; with this announcement in this way Steorn is going for high impact. After years trying to capture the attention of the scientific world and the public through unconventional media campaigns it may be hard to get people to take them seriously this time.

Overunity technology has of course been the goal of inventors and scientific dreamers for centuries. So far, however nothing has come along that has convinced the scientific or business communities. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary and convincing evidence and I’m sure Steorn realizes that. It will be very interesting to see the “proof” that is presented in this next experiment. Will this time be different and will Steorn deliver? If they don’t this would be an epic FAIL for the record books. 

Roll on Saturday!
at Steorn.com

Steorn watchers may be wondering when Steorn’s next experiment will be happening. Actually it is going on right now. To see the excitement all you have to do is to go to camera 3 on Steorn’s website.

According to Sean McCarthy they are running a “soak test” on one of their Orbo devices  in which they are measuring the strength of the magnetic domains over time. I think the intention is to run this Orbo this for seven days and show that over an extended period of time there is the magnets do not lose strength in an orbo configuration.

Sean also remarked recently in Steorn’s forum that they are using “optics” (optical encoders) for the timing of the electronics instead of reed switches in these devices which apparently are much less likely to fail.

It might be fun to sit and watch the orbo for a few days to see if anyone replaces it – or at least changes the battery.