Someone is trying to change the world.

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Posted on : 26-08-2006 | By : matteosp | In : Bilinguals, Science

Flag GB Steorn is a company, based in Dublin, that claims the discover of something really revolutionary: a system that can produce limitless amounts of clean and free energy.

Ok, I know this is hard to believe, but more the three thousand scientists said they are interested in partecipate to the challenge Steorn is organizing and that will soon take place.

Here a couple of pieces from an interview appeared on the Guardian:

There is a test rig with wheels and cogs and four magnets meticulously aligned so as to create the maximum tension between their fields and one other magnet fixed to a point opposite. A motor rotates the wheel bearing the magnets and a computer takes 28,000 measurements a second. The magnets, naturally, act upon one another. And when it is all over, the computer tells us that almost three times the amount of energy has come out of the system as went in. In fact, this piece of equipment is 285% efficient.

“No one in the scientific community wants to become embroiled in the kind of controversy that Pons and Fleishmann faced,” says McCarthy. “With our challenge, we’re hoping to provide a respectable public platform for serious evaluation of the technology. Then, perhaps, scientists will feel confident enough to challenge the conventional view.”Certainly, the Steorn team seems genuine and well-intentioned. Walshe says that if the technology is accepted it will be licensed to manufacturers, but given away to electrical and water projects in developing countries. And, until their claims have been assessed by the jury, McCarthy says they won’t be accepting any investor offers. So if this is a hoax, it would appear not to be a money-making scheme; Walshe says the Economist ad alone cost £75,000.

Steorn slogan is a quote by George Bernard Shaw: All great truth begin as blasphemies. I really hope this is the begin of a truth.

Flag ITA Steorn è un’azienda, con sede a Berlino, che annuncia di aver scoperto qualcosa di realmente rivoluzionario: un sistema in gradi di produrre una quantità infinita di energia pulita e a costo zero.

E’ vero, sembra difficile da credere, ma più di tremila scienziati si sono detti interessati a partecipare ad un evento, una sfida, che si terrà tra non molto.

E’ anche apparsa un’intervista sul Guardian, di cui riporto alcune righe:

There is a test rig with wheels and cogs and four magnets meticulously aligned so as to create the maximum tension between their fields and one other magnet fixed to a point opposite. A motor rotates the wheel bearing the magnets and a computer takes 28,000 measurements a second. The magnets, naturally, act upon one another. And when it is all over, the computer tells us that almost three times the amount of energy has come out of the system as went in. In fact, this piece of equipment is 285% efficient.

“No one in the scientific community wants to become embroiled in the kind of controversy that Pons and Fleishmann faced,” says McCarthy. “With our challenge, we’re hoping to provide a respectable public platform for serious evaluation of the technology. Then, perhaps, scientists will feel confident enough to challenge the conventional view.”Certainly, the Steorn team seems genuine and well-intentioned. Walshe says that if the technology is accepted it will be licensed to manufacturers, but given away to electrical and water projects in developing countries. And, until their claims have been assessed by the jury, McCarthy says they won’t be accepting any investor offers. So if this is a hoax, it would appear not to be a money-making scheme; Walshe says the Economist ad alone cost £75,000.

Il motto di Steorn è una celebre frase di George Bernard Shaw: Tutte le grandi verità cominciano come blasfemie. Spero davvero si tratti di una verità.


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Geniuses meeting

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Posted on : 06-08-2006 | By : matteosp | In : Bilinguals, Science

Flag GB Did you know that W. Heisenberg, N. Bohr, M. Planck, M. Curie, A. Einstein and others were photographed together?It happened in 1927 during a conference: Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics.

29 folks appear in the picture and, at the time it was taken, those people already collected 9 Nobel prizes. Other 9 would have been collected in the following years.Globally in the picture there are 17 Nobel prize winners, as Marie Curie received the prize twice.

Flag ITA Lo sapevate che W. Heisenberg, N. Bohr, M. Planck, M. Curie, A. Einstein e altri sono stati fotografati insieme?E’ successo nel 1927 durante una conferenza: Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics.

Nella foto appaiono 29 persone che, nel momento in cui è stata scattata, già insieme raggruppavano 9 premi Nobel. Altri 9 sarebbero stati assegnati negli anni successivi.In totale nella foto appaiono 17 premi Nobel, perchè Marie Curie ne ha ricevuti ben due.

Solvay conference 1927

Source: Solvay conference 1927 from Wikipedia.


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Tiziano Terzani

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Posted on : 27-07-2006 | By : matteosp | In : Bilinguals, Uncategorized

Flag GB In this unhappy day for my country something happened that made me get a little bit better.Tonight at the TV I saw an interview to Tiziano Terzani* that impressed me much.Even if the interview was taken only 2 months before his death, he was still able to comunicate his great energy, spirital power and happyness. I never heard someone speak about facing such an hard desease with his tranquillity. He is watching you in the eyes, involving you in an intimate talking in which you can’t not to feel passionate.Here an extract:

…A cancer? I have numerous, here and there. And the amusing thing is that we are living together since seven years. Futher more, I and them are a single thing and I would be a stupid thiniking: they kill me, I kill them. We will leave together because we grew together: and for this I think the cancer has been a blessing for me, in fact I was fallen into the life routine and this cancer saved me …

* Tiziano Terzani was an Italian journalist and writer.For 30 years was correspondent for Der Spiegel and collaborated with Il Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica. He is author of many books like: A Fortune-Teller Told Me, Behind The Forbidden Door: Travels in Unknown China and Letters against the War.

Flag ITA In questo giorno triste per il mio paese, è successo qualcosa che mi risolleva un pochino il morale.In TV è passata un’intervista a Tiziano Terzani* che mi ha molto impressionato.Anche se l’intervista risale ad appena due mesi prima della sua morte, Tiziano è ancora in grado di comunicare la sua energia, la forza del suo spirito, la sua felicità. Non ho mai sentito nessuno parlare di una così difficile malattia con così grande tranquillità. Lui ti guarda negli occhi, ti coninvole in una conversazioni intima a cui non ti puoi non appassionare.Ecco un estratto:

…Un tumore? Ne ho vari, un po’ di qua, un po’ di là. Ma la cosa divertente è che ci convivo da sette anni. E poi, io e quelli siamo una cosa sola e sarebbe stupido pensare: loro ammazzano me, io ammazzo loro. Ce ne andremo insieme perché siamo cresciuti insieme: e con questo trovo che per me il cancro è stato una benedizione, perché ero ricaduto nella routine delle vita e questo cancro mi ha salvato….

* Tiziano Terzani è stato giornalista e scrittore. Per trent’anni è stato corrispondente di Der Spiegel e collaboratore de Il Corriere della Sera e La Repubblica. E’ autore di numerosi libri, tra cui: Un indovino mi disse, La porta proibita e Lettere contro la guerra.

Tiziano Terzani
Photo: Vicenzo Cottinelli. Florence, May 24th, 2004.

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