The Zap-X dream car, so much hype?
Santa Rosa, Calif. company Zap, a company that has gone through bankruptcy once already, is asking for $25,000 deposits on its electric car that has yet to be built.
The company is making all kinds of promises (first reported by Forbes and picked up by a Wired blog) that seem too good to be true:
It will recharge in 10 minutes and travel 350 miles on that charge. It will go zero to 60 mph in 4.8… Continue Reading
Orbo energy wonder apparently a hoax
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… Continue Reading
Steorn’s hyped claim about free, constant energy — on show tomorrow
Steorn, a private Irish company, is making the controversial claim that it has developed a source of free, clean and constant energy — self-generating with no dependence on other materials.
The company calls the product “Orbo,” and says it is based upon the “principle of time variant magneto-mechanical interactions:”
There’s a lot of hype flowing out of London, where the company is supposed to demonstrate Orbo tomorrow (July 5th) at the Kinetica Museum. It was supposed to… Continue Reading