Posted by Ian MacDonald on June 24, 2009 at 12:47am
In August 2006 the Irish company Steorn published an advertisement in
the Economist announcing the development of “a technology that produces
free, clean and constant energy”. Qualified experts were sought to form
a “jury” to validate these claims.
Twenty-two independent scientists and engineers were selected by Steorn
to form this jury. It has for the past two years examined evidence
presented by the company.
The unanimous verdict of the Jury is that
Steorn's attempts to demonstrate the claim have not shown the
production of energy. The jury is therefore ceasing work.
The jury consists of scientists and engineers in relevant fields from
Europe and North America, from industry, universities and government
laboratories. Information about individual members can be found at http://stjury.ning.com/
R.I.MacDonald
Chairman, Steorn Jury
Source: http://stjury.ning.com/forum/topics/jury-announcement
Read the Comments/Discussion as well.
-----------
From Steorn's official site:
Jury ReportSteorn today confirmed that the internet ‘blog’ stjury.ning.com
had been posted on behalf of members of the Jury of scientists that
Steorn had engaged to conduct an independent review of its Orbo
Technology.
In a statement, Steorn CEO, Sean McCarthy said that “he was grateful
to the Jury members for the time and effort that they had devoted to
the process.”
McCarthy continued on to state that he “fully understood the
frustration of the Jury members with respect to the time that the
process was taking. Implementing Orbo in a reliable and consistent
manner had remained a challenge for the organization, one that we had
made no secret of. Due to these difficulties we had focused on
providing the Jury with test data relating to the underlying magnetic
effect behind Orbo. This work concluded at the end of 2008.”
McCarthy concluded by stating that “during 2009 the company had
resolved the key technical problems related to the implementation of
Orbo and is now focused on commercial launch towards the end of this
year, at which time academic and engineering validation would be
released concurrent with public demonstrations”.
Source: http://www.steorn.com/news/releases/?id=1151
Proves again the need for an organization such as the proposed Xtreme Science Foundation. [Vlad]
