|
Over the centuries and still to this day, charlatans or delusional folks claim to have the answer to all our energy needs by creating something out of nothing. Failure can be useful for learning but some people don't seem to learn from their own failures or from history, but charlatans have learned to fool the gullible.
This is a very incomplete list. If you have suggestions, corrections, or a particular device and persons/companies involved, please let me know at thorgolucky@gmail.com, thanks!
| Date |
Who |
What |
Comments |
|
2007
|
Ecowatts
|
Ecowatts Thermal Energy Cell
|
|
|
2006-2015
|
Steorn Ltd
http://steorn.com
|
The Steorn Orbo, Orbo Cube, OCube and OPhone
|
- The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (SGU): Podcast #544 @04:38 (Two products: the "OCube" for £1200 and "OPhone" pre-order for £480 but cannot actually place an order, the CEO says it's not harvesting electromagnetic energy, ridiculous hypothesizing about "splitting time", physicists studied it for two years and concluded that it doesn't work, publicity to lure investors)
- The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (SGU): Podcast #514 @09:13 (The "Orbo Cube" never-die battery, public demonstration at Slattery's Pub but nobody allowed to examine the device, demonstration cut short after two days due to "too much publicity", stringing along investors or they are true believers who are so caught up in their own belief that they're just special pleading their way into a corner)
- The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (SGU): Podcast #230 @02:35 (Steorn Orbo "overunity" underwhelming unmetered demonstration)
- The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (SGU): Podcast #207 @03:27 (Steorn "Orbo technology" fail, special pleading, what leads people and companies to fall for free energy, slight experimental error validating their incorrect hypothesis which they then extrapolate wildly to producing energy for the world)
- The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (SGU): Podcast #103 @04:49 (Steorn Orbo demonstration postponed due to pathetic "technical difficulties", cannot work due to well-established laws of physics, each energy transfer loses energy, enormous burden of proof to meet) @13:22 ("time-variant magneto-mechanical interaction", magnets can generate work but the magnetic field gets weaker, magnets as a kind of battery) @17:28 (John Kanzius, salt water claimed as fuel, radio frequencies for inefficient electrolysis, more energy put in than comes out, carriers of energy vs sources of energy vs conduit of energy, terrible credulous childish reporting that failed the public, uncaring journalists)
- Skeptoid: Episode #243 @00:26: Student Questions including the Steorn Orbo
|
|
1946
|
John Roy Robert Searl and Searl Magnetics, Inc
http://searlsolution.com
|
The Searl Effect and the Searl Effect Generator (SEG)
|
|
|
1920's
|
Thomas Henry Moray
|
Moray Valve "radiant energy device"
|
|
|
Debunkatron: Free Energy and Perpetual Motion