The Future Has Arrived Early
Science news was dominated last week by reports of the on-again off-again planetary status of Pluto. As you can see from my previous posts, I myself was completely caught up in the controversy. Yet there was another story, less sexy than the Pluto debate, and originally ignored by much of the press, that caused my psychic antenna to vibrate much more intensely.
A small high-tech firm in Dublin accidently discovered a way to generate clean and unlimited energy using magnets.
The Guardian UK reported:
Sean McCarthy says that no one was more sceptical than he when Steorn, his small hi-tech firm in Dublin, hit upon a way of generating clean, free and constant energy from the interaction of magnetic fields. ‘It wasn’t so much a Eureka moment as a get-back-in-there-and-check-your-instruments moment, although in far more colourful language,’ said McCarthy.
Of course, the left-brained scientific community has scoffed at this claim, trying to write it off as a marketing stunt. You see, Steorn’s discovery goes against the dominant paradigm. The laws of physics state that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.
But not everyone is entirely convinced that those laws can’t be broken. In an interview, Martin Fleischmann, a retired cold-fusion scientist, states:
“I am actually a conventional scientist,'’ he says, “but I do accept that the existing [quantum electro-dynamic] paradigm is not adequate. If what these men are saying turns out to be true, that would be proof that the paradigm was inadequate and we would have to come up with some new theory…”
He goes on to say that he doesn’t have confidence in the study. But, in response to an ad placed by Steorn in The Economist, more than 3000 scientists have applied to test Steorn’s theory.
I am not a scientist, but when I listen to the Still, Small Voice, what I hear is that Steorn is not actually yanking the world’s collective chain. What I believe is that they received a transmission from the future, that this technology has arrived before its time because of the dire state of our planet. With hope, this ahead-of-its-time technological breakthrough will be received with open arms. That’s what the optimist in me desires.
But part of me is a pessimist and I fear that the good that can come from this discovery will be thwarted by the naysayers and the folks who are more concerned with profit than preserving the earth’s bounty. Remember, Galileo went to prison for claiming that the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around. I hope this part of me is wrong. Time will tell.
If you want to know how it all turns out, you can sign up on Steorn’s home page to receive an email detailing the results of the trials. I, for one, can’t wait to hear.
Posted: August 29th, 2006 under World Affairs, Environment, The Future.
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Comment from mary
Time: September 14, 2006, 3:16 pm
Let’s hope Steorn’s blitz of information and distribution of this is enough to prevent any more delays of this energy device. In theory, many other discoveries made to benefit humanity have not reached us and have been purged, discredited and kept so quiet that references are hard to find.
This insight into energy was granted many years ago to an inventor working with Thomas Edison. Our famous Tommy discovered the electrical Direct Current while Nikolai Tesla created the more useable and marketable Alternating Current.
A few years later Nikolai then came up with a small invention using magnets that could be planted in a persons backyard and provide all energy needed for the home and then some… except when he showed it to Tommy, the investments were already extreme and this little magnetic device was too cheep, didn’t require any governing and basically could not be controlled.
So not only did Tesla’s lab and all his notes burn to the ground but he was chased into hiding and prevented from ever doing any more experiements, dying a broken man.
Other tidbits of information gleaned from numerous sources not only promote this possibility of magnetic energy but if used with the added power of sound, could be enough to move huge blocks of stone with ease.
Once a new discovery is made, we often look at it and state - how simple!
Comment from Leslie Zemenek
Time: September 15, 2006, 3:43 am
Mary, Thanks for your insightful comment. The more I learn about magnets, the more I am convinced that they are the way of the future.
This past weekend, Wired featured another bit about a magnetic device for automobiles that is said to reduce emissions and increase fuel efficiency. And I only just became aware that the Bullet Trains in Japan use Magnetic Levitation (a futuristic term if ever I heard one) to travel so fast.

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