Last year, a small marketing company in Dublin had claimed to find the essence of free energy by harvesting energy created from perpetual motion. Orbos, the device used to demonstrate the free energy generation, was announced to enter a 10-day public trial at their London offices starting back in July 4, 2007.
 
The demonstration was set to be a worldwide web broadcast over their official web site, covering the demonstration from four cameras, which are situated inside a room that could also be viewed from the outside. The Kinetica demonstration was previously observed by a live jury - credible personalities in the scientific community - and the claim will be validated if true or false when the results of the 22 scientists are published.

The company has yet to undergo the Orbos Kinetica demonstration thoguh, due to an issue with extra heating from the camera lighting positioned directly above the device. Critics and skeptics alike are beginning to doubt the existence of this free energy, while many have cause to believe that the hype and the trouble was all just for nothing.

But later today, as our team re-investigated the claim, the device does exist and it has not been removed from the web broadcast at all. We will keep a close look on the developments of Steorn's demonstration and hopefully be able to name a day and date when the demonstration will start after the delay.

You may jump over to the live demonstration via the Read link below, but you may require an above average broadband connection to get as many updated images as possible.

The one thing about conspiracy theories and far-fetched technology is that it grabs so much attention very quickly once made known. Steorn, the company that claims to have made a free-energy machine, has been making its rounds just about everywhere since their ad in the Economist, and it seems their strategy is proving very adequate in its ability to generate energy.

Nervous energy and a lot of website traffic.

According to Sean McCarthy, chief executive of Steorn, their website has "gone from total obscurity to 750,000 hits on Google" and has received investment offers and bids for rights to create a film on it.  McCarthy has also received everything from praise in emails to abusive phone calls to visits from those lovely people we call stalkers.

While this publicity is somewhat value-neutral, save for the stalking, it's starting to take on a Snakes on a Plane kind of frenzy that isn't entirely healthy. We at QJ hope it's true at least, thermodynamics be damned, so that we can at least protect ourselves from the problems that warring for oil and natural resources brings.

All great truths begin as blasphemies, says the main page of their website, but George Bernard Shaw's quote couldn't sum this up any better than it already has.

The Irish company Steorn has supposedly created a machine that produces free energy through magnetic fields. Free energy is basically that: energy created from nothing, and is thus an inexhaustible resource.

This is nice and all, but the problem with it, as scientists say, is the entire idea of creating energy in that way goes against some very fundamental laws of physics. According to the first law of thermodynamics (always wanted to say that), energy can only be converted from one state to another, but cannot be created or destroyed. Steorn's technology violates this very concept, and the Steorn free energy technology is being met with skepticism. The company, however, issued a statement in the Economist, offering a challenge to scientists worldwide to test their tech.

Information on Steorn is popping up everywhere, leading to the origin of the Steorn as an e-business company. The skeptics claim that this is either a very elaborate hoax or publicity stunt to get it back on the market as an e-advertising firm. Even more surprising is the idea put forth (on Steorn's forums no less) that the symbology on the site is reminiscent of Halo 3, specifically the honeycomb on the registration page.

A lot of red herrings and talk around different circles, from physicists, economists and gamers alike. We're not sure what to think though: Is the greater impossibility the site being related to Halo 3, or that someone's actually created free energy? Hopefully, the latter will be true.

In any case, here's a YouTube version of their video on the Steorn download page, courtesy of... well, AlanSteorn.