My Steorn prediction

[lumen]

Maybe you could build you own Orbo!
How about the ktoy plan?

[wizardofmars]

Amazing. The guy is either a conman with the gall of a Mark Goldes...

There is no 'either' about it. Did you read the 2007 report by Dr Mike, the American physicist/engineer who Steorn agreed to meet with for the London demo? He stated flat out that Sean was delusional, and he has been proven right. All that Steorn has left is the 'true believers' and in that sense they are like a cult, with no rational belief system outside blind faith.

It's no surprise to me. There are thousands of delusional con artists out there - Mylow, Archer and Sterling come to mind as three that have been exposed in the last year here at OU. Most of them just don't get Steorn's level of publicity.

[canam101]

Mike also said that Sean thought he could see the orbo spinning when it was not spinning - that is what he meant by 'delusional'.

Mike is just an armchair psychologist spouting rubbish. I don't believe for a second that an entire firm of people, or even the top 3 or 4, would continue to believe they had something when there was nothing.

I don't mean there is necessarily anything useful, but they must have some anomaly that they are trying to exploit.

And since they haven't been able to exploit it - scale it up - in six years, they probably never will, and may just be coasting and keeping the paychecks coming in.

And it is probably easy to coast with a fairly clear conscience if you keep seeing some blip of apparently extra energy.

[also antlike]

Mike also said that Sean thought he could see the orbo spinning when it was not spinning - that is what he meant by 'delusional'.

Mike is just an armchair psychologist spouting rubbish. I don't believe for a second that an entire firm of people, or even the top 3 or 4, would continue to believe they had something when there was nothing.

I don't mean there is necessarily anything useful, but they must have some anomaly that they are trying to exploit.

And since they haven't been able to exploit it - scale it up - in six years, they probably never will, and may just be coasting and keeping the paychecks coming in.

And it is probably easy to coast with a fairly clear conscience if you keep seeing some blip of apparently extra energy.

You don't believe that 3 or 4 (paid) people could believe something when there is nothing?  Really?  What about the 2 billion Christians in the world and 1.5 billion Muslims?

Look, there was no anomaly.  There was nothing that modern science could not explain, and the jury basically said as much.  No energy gain.

[Bobbotov]

I don't mean there is necessarily anything useful, but they must have some anomaly that they are trying to exploit.

The anomaly was finding a dozen Rubes that would put up $15M. As it turns out that was easier (and more lucrative) to do than producing OU.