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Teki187

Teki187

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Perpetual motion - a technology so outside the laws of physics that even the patent office refuses to touch it - is back.

Or it will be when Steorn, the Emerald Isle's leading proponents of the art, shows off working machines and opens the tech up to anyone who wants a licence. This exciting event is due to happen sometime in the next week at the Waterways Building in Dublin, where Steorn is reported to be setting up something along the lines of their 2007 demonstration at Kinetica in London - only, one trusts, without the fail.

To back this up, the company has produced a brash new video advert consisting mostly of quotes from Steorn denialists; the only positive quote is Steorn's own from that original Economist advert in 2006 which kicked off the whole business.

But then, there hasn't been much call for positive quotes in the intervening three and a half years. Aside from the Kinetic kalamity, Steorn assembled a 'jury' of engineers and scientists who were made privy to the secrets - only for the panel to announce that nope, there was nothing there. Steorn's battle-hardened CEO, Sean McCarthy, has toured universities and the Middle East giving a talk (but no demos) that majored on 'magnetic viscosity' as the underlying phenomenon, but didn't manage to convince many of his magnetic veracity. And the company's own online forum degenerated into a strange place of ritual chanting, before being shut down abruptly last month - presumably in anticipation of Steorn's rebirth.

Yet the company did promise to show things off and open things up by the end of 2009 - and as that particular deadline comes thundering over the festive horizon, it appears that it is going to do just that.

If I can get over to Dublin to participate in the great unveiling, I shall - I'm supposed to be on holiday, but who could resist?
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So here we have it, clean, free and constant energy!?

About time.
 
It's utter ****.

It's a motor (powered by 8 electromagnets) being spun by electricity that is effectively joined to a generator (taking power via 2 or 4 electromagnets) that recharges the battery.

Somehow, supposedly, despite using exactly the same scientific principle regards the electromagnets, the 2/4 magnets generating the electricity manage to generate more than the 8 manage to use spinning it.

Personally, I think it's just a big recharging battery and a very efficient motor that can spin long enough to create an illusion of free energy...
 
On a semi-related note, if it turned out this was real, then the company would licence the technology out so they recieved a fee for other companies using it. Would anything stop me from rebuilding one for personal use in my home? Do patents only protect against commercial use?

If this proposed design worked then there would no longer be a requirement for power distribution as local generation would be a possibity, and I'd expect would eventually end up being the norm.
 
Jotun said:
On a semi-related note, if it turned out this was real, then the company would licence the technology out so they recieved a fee for other companies using it. Would anything stop me from rebuilding one for personal use in my home? Do patents only protect against commercial use?

If this proposed design worked then there would no longer be a requirement for power distribution as local generation would be a possibity, and I'd expect would eventually end up being the norm.
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Even if it worked perpetual motion is useless, it would have to create more energy than it used and in a large amount. before it becomes useful. But it doesn't work anyway.
 
Teki187 said:
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So here we have it, clean, free and constant energy!?

About time.
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Teki, do you believe everything you hear without question? People have been trying to make perpetual motion machines for centuries, and none work because it is not possible to get more energy out of a closed system than you put in. It would break the conservation of energy law, which is a very fundamental piece of physics, if it didn't hold the universe would be a very different place.
 
If this was real they'd be making a much bigger deal over this but via different channels.

I mean, this would enable electric cars with an infinite range, you would never need to charge it. You could power your house for absolutely nothing. Well, if energy was freely available like that then the whole world would be completely revolutionised.
 
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