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grufty jim
grufty jim
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Edited Aug 22, 2006, 13:49
Re: 'free energy'
Aug 22, 2006, 00:55
Thing is... magnetism isn't a form of energy. It's a force. Which is a rather different thing entirely.

I've been reading a bit more about this Steorn "free energy machine" and there's a lot that doesn't add up. In fact, there's speculation on physics message boards that it's actually part of a viral marketing campaign for something else entirely (possibly something as mundane as a computer game).

The EU patent application made by Steorn is available to study here...

http://v3.espacenet.com/origdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO2006035419&F=0&QPN=WO2006035419

According to that document...

An actuatable shield is positioned in relation to the plurality of magnets so that it effectively blocks the magnetic field...

This isn't possible. There's no known material that can "block" a magnetic field (though obviously certain materials can redirect a field... but that's a very different proposal indeed).

If this isn't a pure scam / marketing campaign (bear in mind that Steorn started life in the dot com boom as an ecommerce firm) then at best they've developed a new form of magnetically driven motor (using some form of field-rotation, possibly driven by the motion of these "shields"). In which case, it ain't free energy.
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