In following the public reaction to Steorn I have noticed that lately the media attention to Steorn has died down to a whisper. When the demo launched in December there were a number of online articles (though none from major news outlets) commenting on Steorn’s coming back to life – and plenty of comments about the batteries in the orbos. There have been few articles however, on the recent public demonstrations where Steorn have attempted to prove their no-CEMF claim that is central to Orbo technology. Yes, there are plenty of conversations taking place on online discussion forums where Steorn supporters and detracters go head-to-head at times, but these forum battles hardly make a dent in the public consciousness. Perhaps no one cares, or perhaps major media outlets have written Steorn off long ago and don’t feel it’s necessary to continue to report on how discredited Steon has been over the years. Or maybe people are just scratching their heads trying to figure out whether what Steorn had demonstrated has any validity. And maybe from Steorn’s point of view, the media attention doesn’t matter much anyway. What they want to do is to get engineers and developers interested enough sign up to the SKDB and start making Orbo products. From comments Sean McCarthy has made, there has been lots of interest generated in this target community – and its likely that for competitive reasons potential product developers are not going be signalling to the world that they are getting involved with Steorn. I just find it interesting that there is not broader media attention to what could be the biggest technological story of the industrial age
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