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General Category => Discover Seattle! => Topic started by: TehBorken on Aug 20 06 08:30

Title: Highly Unlikely
Post by: TehBorken on Aug 20 06 08:30
 [h3]Company claims to have generator with more than 100% efficiency   [/h3]An Ireland-based company called [a href="vny!://www.steorn.net/frontpage/default.aspx"]Steorn[/a] 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 they 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. [a  href="vny!://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1784833525509845733"]Link[/a]