We were skeptical yesterday when we reported on all the hype about a supposed free, clean perpetual energy source. We suggested it was hoax.
Apparently it is. Someone who spoke to a representative of the company, after the Orbo device apparently broke down with a “heat” problem, writes the following:
Most tellingly he admitted before 4 witnesses that there was no load bearing Orbo device inside the Kinetica museum. No weights being lifted by any device. Just a spinning Orbo (still requiring fixing) . He explicitly said that “the load bearing device is back in Dublin”.
Apologies for the distraction.
Tags: co:Steorn, orbo6 Comments
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Lode Langeweg said:
It all boils down to only this and nothing else: Either you believe that Steorn are a bunch of cruel cynical hypocritical selfish frauds, promising starving people in Africa water and food without meaning it, or you believe that they are honest good people -even idealists- that simply speak the truth.
When you see and hear the Steorn people speak, consult your intuition and gut feeling, and unless you have swept those under the old rug of reasoning based on the laws of nature as they have been known until now, you will get a clear answer. And until you get it, it would behoove you to withhold your attacks on Steorn.
Do you really believe that -although up until now new insights have constantly changed previous views of reality- now this time we finally have it right and have a view of it that will never change forever? -
Reggie Dixon said:
Lode : Isn’t that what I believe is called a “False Dichotomy” ? Many people have over a long, long time thought that they know better than the Laws of Thermodynamics and used exactly the same language about overthrowing previous certainties. You seem to like your self-aggrandising quotes so I leave you this quote to consider:
“If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations - then so much worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these
experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humilation.”Arthur S. Eddington (British Astrophysicist, 1882-1933) in The nature of the Physical World (1928)
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Jammers1978 said:
It’s not that I don’t necessarily believe that “free energy” is possible, and without breaking the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics it could be that this machine taps into a hitherto unknown energy source, it’s just that having read the website it just looks like a load of bollocks. There are a couple of technical sounding but clearly meaningless statements such as “time variant mechano magnetic engineering”while not explaining anything and saying the intellectual property will be released afterwards. But if it is Steorns intellectual property then they can just release it now! What a load of rubbish.
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Jammers1978 said:
Oh yeah, I forgot to add this; the technology will be released “for a nominal fee”….says it all really.
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Adman said:
As usual there’s someone bleating about thermodynamics and applying those theories to a device that doesn’t ustilse the theory. I wish people would stop jumping on the close-minded “thermodynamics” bandwagon, it’s so feckin’ boring.
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