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.

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.

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.

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.