Free Energy Challenge to Scientific Community?

Question

Steorn an Irish company has issued a challenge in journal Economist. It claims to have developed a free energy motor and is seeking the 12 most qualified and most cynical physicists to test it. Results will be made public.

http://www.steorn.net/frontpage/default.aspx?p=1

What do you think it's chances are??

Answer 1

Hard to say, they dont put any info on the web that gives any idea what they have created or how it works.
I would say its just a publicity stunt. One of the most basic laws of physics is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes states.

Answer 2

its impossible to vreate energy, at least not without mass, i think its juz a publicity stunt where the ll b lyk " oh well it does not create free energy but its realli vv efficient" or sth lidat.. come on.. its impossible.. even if they were to use anti matter to create energy it also involves a loss of mass, which they claim do not happen.. All inventions are built on scientific discoveries, how can they built sth with a "technology or theory" that not even the vv top in the scientific community knows??

Answer 3

Strictly speaking, a "motor" is powered by something else... like an electrical cord plugged into the power grid. An "engine" generates power from fuel (e.g., an automobile engine).

I'd expect that their new device only runs near an outlet. ;-)

Answer 4

This hoax is so old there would have been a real one on display by now.