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.
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:
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.
Anyone paying attention to the Irish company Steorn will be familiar with their claims of ‘free, clean and constant energy’ producing Orbo technology. Following a rather quiet two years the company has suddenly sprung into the public view again by holding an extensive public demonstration of their technology in Dublin, Ireland over a six week period ending on January 31.
It appears that little has been spared in the way of expenses to publicize and carry out this demonstration. We see high quality video presentations, an extensive and robust web site, a 24/7 staff on hand, lots of expensive testing equipment and numerous well made and elegant motors. The company, it seems, is hinging its future on what is currently happening in Dublin.
I am sure that most interested observers will have asked themselves, like me, “why are they doing this?”. Thinking over this question I see four possible reasons for their behavior.
1. They know full well they don’t have overunity technology and are putting on an elaborate scam, hoping at the end of the month they will be able to hoodwink lots of people into paying €419.00 for a year’s subscription to the SKDB.
2. They believe they have overunity technology, but are mistaken.
3. They are insane and the company has collective self-delusion.
4. They actually have overunity technology.
I want to deal with each of these possibilities in turn.
They are Lyingand they Know It
I suggest this is the most unlikely scenario for a number of reasons. Here are some.
a. It is unlikely that they would have been able to hold together as a company for so long without a key officer, whistleblowing employee or disgruntled investor coming forward to expose them.
b. If they were faking their technology it is very unlikely that they would have gone through the humiliating London failure. Would a scam company display products that didn’t work?
c. Three professional engineers with reputations to maintain would have had to go on camera and lie that they had tested Steorn’s technology and verify that it was overunity.
d. They would have to meddle with expensive testing equipment to make it display false readings in a live setting
e. They would be brazen enough to put on a six-week public demonstration, inviting anyone to come and test their devices with their own testing equipment (starting next Monday).
f. They would all have to live a lie. Remember, Steorn is a R&D company mainly made up of professionals who would have to put their careers, livelihoods and reputations in jeopardy. If the lie were detected the likelihood of any of them ever being able to be employed in their field again would be very low.
They Think They have Overunity Technology but They Have Made a Mistake
One point of view is that perhaps Steorn have found an interesting magnetic anomaly that looks to them like it might provide free energy – but they are mistaken and in the final analysis their Orbo devices don’t produce more energy than is input. Some thoughts:
a. If they were not certain that their devices were overunity, why go to the trouble of the current demonstration? The have opened themselves up to very critical and careful scrutiny and are inviting people to test them. Would it make sense to do this if they were in any doubt of their claim?
b. Same as point c. above. Why would professional engineers go on camera stating they measured overunity if they were in doubt?
c. Would they expect people to sign up to the SKDB in significant numbers if they were not convinced that they could demonstrate Orbo was OU technology beyond a reasonable doubt? We are still two weeks away from the end of the demo – and Steorn has promised that more validation exercises will become available. Sean McCarthy has mentioned lights on devices, calorimetry testing, magnetic domain testing, independent measuring and electrical energy in/out.
If they were not completely confident of their claims, could they expect to be able to convice the public of them?
They are Insane and Delusional — Out of Touch with Reality
Of course detecting insanity is not always easy and sometimes insanity is decided “in the eye of the beholder”, but one of the things that the public demonstration allows is for people to have an extended period of contact with the individuals who make up the company. They have been meeting and greeting the public, engaging in lectures and discussions. If there were signs of madness among the members – such as irrational or disturbing behavior, it would likely be fairly noticeable. From everything I have seen and learned, these people are acting like a normal company would be expected to act — albeit with an extraordinary claim.
They Have What They Claim: Orbo Technology is Overunity
Now this is certainly not a technical anlysis of Orbo technology. It’s more of review of the circumstantial evidence; but having gone through this process of elimination, and having seen the experiments presented at the demonstration to date, I personally have come to the conclusion that the most logical explanation for Steorn’s actions and activities is that they have developed an overunity technology and at this point I am inclined to agree with Sean McCarthy when he says that Orbo presents an opportunity to change everything.
If you think I am missing anything in this analysis, please feel free to comment!
Steorn has claimed that the launch of its Orbo technology will start a revolution. CEO Sean McCarthy says that what Steorn is offering is “an opportunity for us as a species and us as a society to change everything”. I don’t think you’ll find a more bold claim coming from an energy company and in making it Steorn is flying in the face of accepted scientific doctrine which holds that overunity technology is impossible.
So how is the claim being received? Well, there are a number of forums on the web where people are paying attention to the company and much discussion is taking place. It has been interesting to see that along with the people who believe that Steorn is an obvious fraud or scam, there are also others who are intrigued with the claims. Some people are actively cheering on the company, believing that they have something that will help solve energy problems. Here are a few sample comments taken from Steorn’s Youtube channel.
“sounds like complete BS, gaining energy from no apparent source? BS i tell you”
“If it generates more power than it uses then why does it need a battery ? This is a total fraud”
“Wow, I thought this hoax died years ago.”
“While I’m not convinced, I’ll still keep an eye on news on the matter. ”
“i think it’s for real… (hoping).”
“This experiment was awesome. If you can produce torque without CEMF then you have an overunity machine!”
“Keep the info coming, guys. The world is hungry for this information. We NEED this technology”
“It would be the greatest discovery EVER. ”
These are just a few of the comments out there – but they illustrate the wide range of opinion about Steorn’s claims. The company says that they have been expecting much skepticism and over the course of the demonstration — especially in the January session — they hope to be able to allay critics through more live demonstrations and experiments.
So how goes the Orbo revolution? Well it’s early days yet, but it appears that they have succeeded in getting some initial attention and from the intensity of the debate there are people who are extremely interested in all that is taking place at the Waterways in Dublin.
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