Steorn News

[hempenearth]

You know, even the domain servers for steorn.com are down,
NS79.WORLDNIC.COM
NS80.WORLDNIC.COM

Looks like their host is having issues.

PL

I'd bet it's scheduled maintenance but some warning would have been nice - don't like going "cold turkey"!

[wizardofmars]

What Sean (Steorn CEO) didn't say is the more interesting story.

No news on a new demo since July 2007. No news on a working device at all. Why don't they repair the demo unit and show it again? Have they ever shown anyone a working non-stop device?

No news on the validation jury which has allegedly had access to the Orbo technology for over a year

No news on the validation toy Sean promised in 2007

No news on the SPDC efforts

No explanation for why Steorn never put a video of the working demo on their website

In short, all Sean did was wave his hands and say they'll be licensing the technology in 2009 to 300 engineers. Anyone can say anything. 

No doubt this new initiative of Steorn will take many months - as someone else said, it's the infinite monkeys tactic and Sean will drag this out through 2009. The upshot is Steorn is trying to get off the hook of creating a working Orbo (because their perpetual motion machine doesn't work).

I imagine they must also be getting close to an investor lawsuit at this point given the millions of dollars they raised and spent on Orbo.

[PaulLowrance]

I thought QFT was a retired acronym since there are too many abbreviates such as quite frankly true, quoted for truth, quality family time, quality face time, quest for tech, quite freaking true, quit freaking talking, quite f--king true, and ... quit f--king talking.     And it's also a field of quantum physics, Quantum Field Theory.

PL

[utilitarian]

No explanation for why Steorn never put a video of the working demo on their website

To me, this is the most shocking.  They went through all the expense of a huge ad to advertise their demo in 2007.  The demo failed, and there was much apologizing at the scene.  Lots of egg on the face.

What would I do if I had a demo that failed for an unexpected reason, and I really did have a working product?  I would put a video up as soon as humanly possible to save face and show the world that I was no fraud.  Why not?  The decision has already been made that demonstrating the Orbo would not do damage to any intellectual property rights, so why not do it.

Only one reason - no Orbo has ever worked.

[PaulLowrance]

Sean has the dream of a glorious and grandiose Orbo world presentation, and popping some video on a web page doesn't fulfill that envision.

PL