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