08-28-2006, 06:32 PM
Quote:I did not read the whole idea yet, but this is a too interesting subject not to post it here on the lounge.
http://www.steorn.net/frontpage/default.aspx
A company that says it has made a device that 'creates energy'. So not obeying the laws of thermodynamics.
They now put out a challenge (in The Economist) to scientists (physisists mainly) to propose measurments that could prove they are wrong (or right).
eppie
Complete junk.
The laws of thermodynamics have yet to bow before any macroscopic phenomena whatsoever. Not on earth, not in the stars, not as far as science can see. (Quantum effects, I don´t know enough to say, but I don´t think there either.)
And these folks have found not only the exception to the first law, but have already found a way to turn it into a useable source of energy before anyone else has even verified this completely unique scientific phenomenon?
I put the odds at about a zillion to one. The anecdotal method by which they support it should alone be enough to dissuade people from taking this seriously.
-Jester