Is Steorn totaly dead or have they planned a comeback?

[ChileanOne]

Schpankme:

Think it the way backwards: What would have happen if the demo were have been successfull?

The Bearing Failure is something that Steorn did not expect. You have to ask the right questions.

How a bearing with a 3 minute winddown time becomes so bad as to have a 20 seconds winndown time?

That, my friend, is the right question.

[shruggedatlas]

Schpankme:

Think it the way backwards: What would have happen if the demo were have been successfull?

The Bearing Failure is something that Steorn did not expect. You have to ask the right questions.

How a bearing with a 3 minute winddown time becomes so bad as to have a 20 seconds winndown time?

That, my friend, is the right question.

And the answer to your question: Steorn was lying about the bearing problem.  They never had a working device.

Think about it.  Even if they had a working device and were so stupid as to only bring one prototype to the demo, and it did somehow fail, the first thing they would have done to save face is get back into the lab and film a working device and then put that on the Internet.  Instead, they have been silent for 6 months.  Hmmmmm.

[ResinRat2]

You bunch of naysayers !!!! (LOL)

It says right on their website, and I quote: "The validation process began in January 2007 and is expected to conclude by the end of this year. "

OOOPPPSS     I guess the end of the year passed and still no conclusions.

Hey! These things take time you know! It may take more time. Another... year?  ... or two ... or three? .. or...someday?

Heck!!  All of you just need to be PATIENT you know. So quit yer bellyachin' !!!!      ---   LOL!!!

[b0rg13]

the human race has all the tech it needs and then some but its kept from us when its stumbled across, we dont really need to come up with new ideas or scams, we have it all its just hidden from us, the real effort should be put on the so called ppl in power to release it and start putting them in prision for life if they dont and setting up teams apon teams of ppl to find it and put it on the net, look how far science has so called come latley, not far at all, 40ish years ago we goto the moon(so they say).........yet in the last 35 years we have not ?(so they say),tech didnt suddenly stop, its all hidden from us., its funny tho we chose to ignore it and do nothing but try to reinvent the wheel.,no wonder its taken away from us, we let it be that way.

[shruggedatlas]

the human race has all the tech it needs and then some but its kept from us when its stumbled across, we dont really need to come up with new ideas or scams, we have it all its just hidden from us, the real effort should be put on the so called ppl in power to release it and start putting them in prision for life if they dont and setting up teams apon teams of ppl to find it and put it on the net, look how far science has so called come latley, not far at all, 40ish years ago we goto the moon(so they say).........yet in the last 35 years we have not ?(so they say),tech didnt suddenly stop, its all hidden from us., its funny tho we chose to ignore it and do nothing but try to reinvent the wheel.,no wonder its taken away from us, we let it be that way.

And you know all this because you read it on the Internets?