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.
