Steorn's "Free Energy" Jury Comes Back To Bite Them

chiark writes "Remember Steorn? Free energy for all, coming soon, and a gauntleted slap in the face to the physics establishment: 'come be our jury, and prove us right or wrong.' Well, 2 years later, the jury's verdict is in, and it's not the validation Steorn was hoping for: '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.' Steorn had the choice to either accept this and move on, or attempt to rebut. Guess which approach they took?"

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Re:Fraud

[Tycho]

And, no, yammering about 'patents' doesn't cut it. For one thing, various fools have been claiming free energy since the 70s, and, guess what?

I assume that you are refering to the 1870s, in which case that's pretty much the situation. Also, replace energy with money, and you describe what more fools claim. This works for both Ponzi schemes and other scammers like libertarians, like those who claim the government creates free money and who espouse the merits of "free" markets. In all cases these groups are wrong and have no clue as to the how the actual theories work that indicate they are wrong. They also conveniently ignore the massive amounts of reliable experimental data that back up these theories. How I pine for a decent, required class on reasoning in American high schools. Meh.