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Company claims to have generator with more than 100% efficiency

August 19, 2006 on 10:58 pm |
Categories: technology
Tags: technology

I’m calling bullshit on this one. So is this reasonable analysis. Would any of my more technical readership care to confirm?

Be sure to check out the 0% information, 100% marketing Google-hosted video.

Company claims to have generator with more than 100% efficiency:

Mark Frauenfelder:

An Ireland-based company called Steorn claims it has a turbine technology that generates more energy than it uses, aka perpetual motion. Check out this video, not for an explanation of how the technology works (because there is no explanation, besides a little animation of a fuzzy green circle dancing around three horseshoe magnets) but for the ways the use a variety of emotional tricks to sucker people into believing in it.

The company’s credo is a George Bernard Shaw quote: “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” But I’m sure Shaw would also agree that the overwhelming majority of blasphemies that go against bedrock principles of science are utter bullshit.

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(Via BoingBoing).