Comments on: Energy Independence http://www.ivorydome.us/2006/08/energy-independence/ Conservatism Digitalised Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:02:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Curious Texan http://www.ivorydome.us/2006/08/energy-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-729 Curious Texan Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:16:25 +0000 http://www.ivorydome.us/2006/08/30/energy-independence/#comment-729 Thanks, Greg, for bringing this post back to the foreground. I have to admit, I didn't read it very thoroughly when it was first posted (sorry about that, Bo!). My initial reaction is to place Steorn in the same category as the physicists in Utah a few years back who claimed to create cold fusion with a car battery. Since no one was able to replicate their results, the story quickly faded. But that all happened pre-Internet. Stories like this tend to take on a life of their own in cyberspace. On December 1, 2006, Steorn finally put its money where its mouth is and has announced that the long-awaited 12-member "jury" to test their claims has been finalized ("finalised," if you prefer the British spelling): http://www.steorn.net/en/news.aspx?p=2&id=911 As an intellectual property (IP) paralegal, the fact that Steorn is being extremely circumspect about disclosure of the details of its invention and has required its jurors to sign non-disclosure agreements tells me two things. Either 1) these people are very savvy about protecting their IP rights; or 2) they want people to think that what they have is worth protecting. Once again, I want to thank Greg for bringing this story back to our attention. However, I think your prediction of a third world war over this is a bit alarmist. Be that as it may, I'll pay closer attention from now on, albeit with a certain amount of healthy skepticism. Thanks, Greg, for bringing this post back to the foreground. I have to admit, I didn’t read it very thoroughly when it was first posted (sorry about that, Bo!).

My initial reaction is to place Steorn in the same category as the physicists in Utah a few years back who claimed to create cold fusion with a car battery. Since no one was able to replicate their results, the story quickly faded. But that all happened pre-Internet. Stories like this tend to take on a life of their own in cyberspace.

On December 1, 2006, Steorn finally put its money where its mouth is and has announced that the long-awaited 12-member “jury” to test their claims has been finalized (“finalised,” if you prefer the British spelling):

http://www.steorn.net/en/news.aspx?p=2&id=911

As an intellectual property (IP) paralegal, the fact that Steorn is being extremely circumspect about disclosure of the details of its invention and has required its jurors to sign non-disclosure agreements tells me two things. Either 1) these people are very savvy about protecting their IP rights; or 2) they want people to think that what they have is worth protecting.

Once again, I want to thank Greg for bringing this story back to our attention. However, I think your prediction of a third world war over this is a bit alarmist. Be that as it may, I’ll pay closer attention from now on, albeit with a certain amount of healthy skepticism.

]]> By: Greg http://www.ivorydome.us/2006/08/energy-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-728 Greg Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:22:57 +0000 http://www.ivorydome.us/2006/08/30/energy-independence/#comment-728 You clearly don't understand or haven't given enough thought to the magnitude of what Steorn are claiming. If they are right then we would not only have free energy which could be used to synthesize or degrade anything we want but the very laws of Physics themselves would need to be radically re-interpreted. Such a discovery of free energy is just the tip of an scientific iceberg which would see radical new discoveries in the natural of matter, magnetism, gravity etc. etc, etc. Environmental concerns would be the last of your worries. Such massive change would more than like bring on a third world war as the balance of power radically shifted. You clearly don’t understand or haven’t given enough thought to the magnitude of what Steorn are claiming. If they are right then we would not only have free energy which could be used to synthesize or degrade anything we want but the very laws of Physics themselves would need to be radically re-interpreted. Such a discovery of free energy is just the tip of an scientific iceberg which would see radical new discoveries in the natural of matter, magnetism, gravity etc. etc, etc.

Environmental concerns would be the last of your worries. Such massive change would more than like bring on a third world war as the balance of power radically shifted.

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