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Steorn Update?

a_unique_person said:
Can we lock this thread now. This whole Steorn thing has been bugging me. :(
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It's been bugging me for years. There once was a Steorn public forum which was effectively died when they required members to pony up E480 to continue. Former members abandoned it in droves. I lurked that because I was astonished at how people got lured in (never registered, never posted).

It was fascinating to observe the religious fervour.
 
BillC said:
Their entry at the Companies Registration Office is here but says little of interest.

Orbo reminds me of a package that arrived on my desk (since I was the most junior member of the team) with a demand (more like a threat, really) that we at the Central Electricity Research Laboratory examine it.

The report it contained was 12 pages of hand-written screed, the graphs were hand-drawn in felt-tip marker pen without even the aid of a straightedge, and the letter threatened to take the idea to our competitors if we didn't take it up immediately.

I took the VHS tape home and watched it. It showed a small wheel with magnets on its rim with another rotating ring of magnets around that. Not dissimilar to Orbo.

To this day, I have no idea what the author was on about. I only assume that it was a concept for a perpetual motion machine. I do remember him complaining that science was a dogma-filled religion, something McCarthy has also claimed.
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Probably a Minato wheel. If the magnet is fixed, the wheel simply stops like you expect it should. But people first "try" them with the magnet in hand, and their reaction and minute muscle movement are enough to impart acceleration, giving the feeling a pure permanent magnet motor is possible.
 
abaddon said:
It's been bugging me for years. There once was a Steorn public forum which was effectively died when they required members to pony up E480 to continue. Former members abandoned it in droves. I lurked that because I was astonished at how people got lured in (never registered, never posted).

It was fascinating to observe the religious fervour.
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Do you remember spirit bear with his "skeptic versus believer - The wall " picture ? Good stuff :P. I tried to argue for hours with those guys, and bet with them they would not be anywhere to be found to admit they were maybe a bit "too quick" to open their brain to the idea when steorn would close down.

Those scams always follow the same cycle.
 
Aepervius said:
Do you remember spirit bear with his "skeptic versus believer - The wall " picture ? Good stuff :P. I tried to argue for hours with those guys, and bet with them they would not be anywhere to be found to admit they were maybe a bit "too quick" to open their brain to the idea when steorn would close down.

Those scams always follow the same cycle.
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Sure, but what will happen next is that the blame will be place on big oil interests instead of the plain fact that it was nonsense from the outset.

Remember the London Demo?

Much hailed, much failed.
 
I would think the investors would have a good case for fraud. They actually sold a box that would supposedly charge your cell phone forever. Somebody must have one of these and an expert witness should be able to show that there is nothing there.

Bob
 
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