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Irish Company Claims Free Energy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-a-robot-in-every-house dept.

raghus writes "An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy. The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy — a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics." I can't wait until I can use this free energy to power my flying car and heat my aquarium of mermaids.

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  1. Engineers' names? by nightsweat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Were the engineers' names Pat and Mike?

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  2. Lacking details but I'm skeptical (aren't we all) by vistic · · Score: 1, Redundant
    "What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.

    So where do you get the energy to travel around the fields?

    And how fast do you need to travel to make a decent amount of energy? And how much energy would it take to travel that fast?

    It's got to come from somewhere.