Ok... so Steorn has annouced its all new perpetual energy machine.

Let me preface this by saying that from the depths of my soul I hope this to be true.  It would do wonders for reducing pollution, reducing poverty/increasing standards of living, eliminating our dependencies on oil and other natural resources, while making us all much more mobile.

Unfortunately, I do not believe this is possible.

This just seems to be more of a test to see how long it takes an online community to completely disprove a theory, and if it can be done faster than having scientific professionals do it.. (who wants to waste their time anyway)

I base my doubts on several things that just seemed to jump out at me:

A) The initial image of the company and website.  The way they have the counter on their site... what is their purpose besides so they know how many people are interested...are we feeding egos? 

I guess it could also work in the same direction, asking.. how many people in the world really care about this.

B)it says .com instead of .net on the header of the page... the site just seems to showy, and thrown together...  but then I guess that could be justified considering the fact that this is a godaddy website, and was just purchased on 08/19/2006......interesting... http://www.register.com/retail/whois.rcmx

C)I've been trying to register to leave a comment in the forum for about an hour now... no luck..  whats the trick here..  kinda invalidates all of the posts in their forum.  (I'm open on this one.. if anybody knows how to post on their forum let me know). 

D)Check out the news portion of their site http://www.steorn.net/en/news.aspx?p=2... weak... oh.. and which makes little to no sense.. its all posted on August 17th...  and of course, thats the only news this company has.. for now.    Check out the about portion http://www.steorn.net/en/about.aspx?p=4 ooohhh... that explains how they have all that engineering talent.

E)Ok.. now we have the video.. Stern's You-Tube release  (after you check out this video.. look at some of this users other vids.. interesting)  I see the CEO and Marketing Manager... who else is a part of this company?.. where is the group that helped to develop this?.. do they have a prototype, or is it all on paper?  oh wait... they are a "Technology Risk Management Company" 

He says exploitation how many times in the video?  (sounds about right)  Let me hear from the guy/team who actually made this work.

F)Scientists have validated this project..OFF THE RECORD...riiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhttt.. the last time somebody brought me a brilliant idea, I wanted to be a part of it.. I didn't say.. great idea..never associate me with this.  Or maybe its because the scientists who looked at it don't want to be ridiculed/discredited if/when it is proved to be false.

G) They have spent 2 years working on this project http://www.steorn.net/en/technology.aspx?p=5 and have made a breakthrough that refutes the main rule of physics.

"In 2003 Steorn undertook a project to develop more efficient micro generators. Early into this project the company developed certain generator configurations that appeared to be over 100fficient. Further investigation and development has led to the companys current technology, a technology that produces free energy. The technology is patent pending." 

Kudos!  Man has been working to create such a machine since the beginning of time, and they managed to do it in 2 years.  Phenomonal.. so when can we start using these... and why haven't the investors in the project tried to validate their claims?

Ok.. so I could just go on and on and on nitpicking on why this sounds scandelous, but instead, I'm going to hope that they prove me wrong... and that it doesn't turn out that Stoern is just an anagram for STONER, and this is all some cacked out idea.

The only thing that really gives me hope is the concept of our solar system, and the fact that the planets revolve around the sun due to gravity/some magnetic field.  They obviously don't stop or slow down...so in theory it could be possible to create something like this..

Here is a link to another blog that has some .mp3 of interviews, and a little more info on the company.  Monty - http://nothingbutnoise.org/2006/08/19/steorn-free-energy

---A point a friend brought up... how would they be able to put this into a cell phone, radio, car, laptop, etc.... I can't put my phone or computer near a magnet, it interferes with wireless/internet signals, and makes my computer screen go nuts...  Magnets have been known to erase data off of computers..

So I  was thinking...  I want so much for the world it makes it difficult to think about what I want for me.  In doing so, it also makes me feel selfish to even want to think about myself.  In the sense that my needs are so miniscule in the big picture.

I want to see change, I want to see positivism, I want to see true happiness, I want to see society working together for the benefit of society.. a common goal for all.

I don't want to see people carelessly harming our planet and destroying the future.  Is it the "governments" fault for not making the changes for the people?  but since the people control the government... is it our fault?  Who's fault is it that we are not empowered to make the necessary changes, and push for what we know is right.  Some are willing to make that stand, others will join.  If we don't act.. change will not happen.

I don't want to see 14 year old girls singing along to a song about doing that "skeet skeet" or "bust a cap in da thug, niggaaa"... nor do I want to hear them whining along to a song about "closing the go*damn door" basically 99f the music of today (in the US) sucks, and is doing nothing to empower anybody, or spread any type of harmony.  Its either depressing, or demoralizing, either way, its not dealing any favors.  This/we are the generations for this change.. what will encourage and excite us to move towards the better?  Will we be forced by necessity for survival, or can we make the decision on our own?

Basically, we have to think about our world now, and how what we do now affects everything.  Think of the world as a life, and the harmful things we are doing to it as giving the world a cigarette.  Every time we do something harmful, we knock some life off of our planet.  So for every screwup, and bad decision we have is essentially destroying a future life. 

The population of the world has grown well more than doubled in the last 50 years.  US Census Bureau  Notice how they predict the population growth to slow down by .5 year over the next 50 years.  I wonder why they predict that?  Will we outgrow our planet?  I don't think it can happen. What I think can happen is we become so overpopulated that we have nasty diseases, and we start killing each other.  Just like Polar bear killing of cubs it finds in its territory and how global warming is affecting their habits, just like AIDS killing 100 thousand people a year, just like rabbits in australia, genocides, and World War II and others (notice how many wars are in the 1900's, and the massive amount of people that have died.  Also notice we almost tripled in size during the 1900's).  Its not coincidence, its nature screaming at us to stop what we are doing and pay attention. 

My only hope is that it hasn't gone too far.  At what point does the effects we have with global warming cause the climatic rubberband to retract, causing an ice age, and at what point does that move from a "little ice age" to an Ice Age?  The Little Ice Age as we have come to know it resulted in deaths of over half the population through the Black Plague.  This eventually came round, gave the roots for capitalism, sparked the Renaissance, and spurred the Industrial Revolution - Socio-Economic Effect of the Black Death. 

Part of me screams out that this is all a natural cycle, and the other part screams that we must make sure we don't cause anymore harm than what naturally occurs.  Historians say that simply the population of the Earth at the time of the Little Ice Age is what kept it around for 400 years.  Our population is so much greater than that now.. think what would happen.

Basically increase in CO2 leads to global warming, ice caps melt, moisture everaporates, this puts high amount of moisture in the air, makes for a more dense/cooler atmosphere, this causes more harsh winters, and more snow.  People start dying, and when the CO2 levels come back to normal, the planet warms up again. This doesn't happen over a century people..its abrupt! Pay attention when it talks about how global warming affects ocean currents.

Damn, I have to go to bed, its so late.  Jake.. you feel it man.  You know what you have to do.  People must be made embrace their responsibility, and they must be influenced.  Why can't we have a large online community site like Myspace.com that is simply people focused towards making our world better.  Is it wikimedia?