Steorn in a Teacup
There’s a big fuss going round about Irish company Steorn, who claim to have invented a Free Energy Generator. Everyone else in the world knows this means “Perpetual Motion Machine”, and rightly assumes this is nothing but a scam. Steorn are calling upon the world’s scientists to prove their machine is a fake. Question is, if the machine works, why bother setting such a stupid challenge? Why not start making money now? The patent office doesn’t even award patents to Perpetual Motion Machines without a working prototype in evidence - hence they are (perpetually -haha) “patent pending”. SciencePunk predicts, just like Charles Redheffer and Louis Enricht, some chump will invest a few million in this scam and the people behind Steorn will never be seen again.
Add comment August 22nd, 2006
What could be better than finding out about one of the longest-running experiments of all time? Watching it in action of course! For the last 76 years, a blob of pitch (you know, the tar stuff) has been slowly dripping out of a funnel. You can now watch the