Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy'

"Travel round" implies external energy input.

They are claiming to be able to do magic. If they can get results they will both get scientific attention-- but they won't need it. If you have a product that produces energy... it won't be that hard to sell.

If they really have done the impossible, it wouldn't be that hard to prove it. They should take it to the nearest University where someone will write a paper about it.

The article doesn't make sense.

They claim to have had "legitimate" scientists who admitted that it works and then walked away? That doesn't make any sense since any real scientist, when shown something that will revolutionize science would have been scientists. They either would have studied and written a paper about the phenominon (which is how science makes discoveries) or they would have sent it to someone in the proper field.

No scientist would have and then walked away.

It sounds like scientists did enough tests of this fantastic claim to yawn and walk away.

Did you notice the poll results on this companies web page. 70% of respondants indicated that the scientific community shouldn't pay any attention to them.

Note that they refer to George Bernard Shaw as a Nobel Prize winning author. Shaw was a playwright--he never wrote a word about science; the reference to Shaw is a non-sequitur which allows them to introduce the prestigious words "Nobel Prize." He (the company spokesman) claims that it has been tested in independent laboratories, but doesn't name them. He says that "scientists" have tested it, and are quite happy to admit it works, off the record. E_Brown is correct, if any discovery violated a law of physics so basic, scientists would be shouting it from the roof tops. The entire article is disingenuous, and represents unsubstantiated claims, which the promoters are careful to hedge so as to make it appear that they are being shunned by the scientific community, obviating their obligation to prove their claims. It's an investment scam, and nothing more.

Hey Solve et Coagula, i've got a bridge i'll sell ya . . . really cheap . . . you could make a fortune . . .

A quick tour around the online world reveals that Steorn was previously an ecommerce management "dot-com" whose market has dried up. One blog pundit points out that if they decided to go into online product promotion, this entire episode will be brilliant evidence of their promotional skills, even if it is pure scientific horseshit.