They seem to be fairly upfront about this: they aren't asking for money, they seem as perplexed as the rest of us and they seem to be happy for a transparent process of independent testing.
I was intrigued by one of the comments in response to the Wired article which seemed to offer a potential explanation.
There are some aspects of physics that are never taught and therefore never considered. If you add the magnetic field (B) from a bar magnet to one from a current carrying coil wound on that bar (deltaB) the field everywhere is a the sum of two terms, B+deltaB. Energy density goes with the square of the field, so expanding the square of the sum we get B^2 +2BdeltaB + deltaB^2. B^2 is the original energy from the magnet. deltaB^2 is the energy from the coil. 2BdeltaB is excess energy gained from where? That is not a trivial amount of energy, and it can be shown that it comes from the quantum domain. It is ignored because over a full cycle it is generally not available to us.I think that comes down to saying that the magnetic force is potentially harnessable as energy, but it's not been done yet. Of course if that were what was happening, what would the ecology of it be?
But then there's always the claim on Steorn's own discussion pages, "In the past six years they have given the impression of offering various goods and services, even something about detecting counterfeit CDs and stuff. They seem to have got investors for their products but never sold anything. Needles to say the money was 'lost' into the expenses of developing the fictitious product and the investeors never got a cent back. DOnt take my word for it, just dig around a little especially in a web archive and decide for your self. I'm not stating anything here just pointing out what one might want to look for." So if you sign up to hear more, don't part with any money until and unless you see the proof reported in reputable fora.
Steorn
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