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Perepiteia Perpetual-Motion Machine May Actually Do...Something

The difference between Thane Heins' perpetual-motion invention Perepiteia and last year's flop Steorn Orbo is that when it was demonstrated last week—to scientists at MIT, no less—it appeared to really work. The result of more than 20 years tinkering, Perepiteia defies conventional thought, apparently using magnets to accelerate a turning electrical motor, as the video shows. More »

9:45 AM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Kit Eaton
49,407 views, 123 comments

too good to be true

The Rise and Fall of the Steorn Orbo Free Energy Machine

They said it couldn't be done. And it probably can't. A year after an Irish company called Steorn promised a perpetual energy source that required only magnetism, not fuel, the device called Orbo was set up for a 10-day public demonstration. Yesterday, at the Kinetica Museum in London, was to be the scheduled unveiling and although the lead scientist was not named Dr. Octavius or Dr. von Doom, something about the "time variant magneto-mechanical interaction" at the center of this process seemed ominous. Nevertheless, the public was invited to watch. Using Internet Explorer, you could even check out four different cameras in the Orbo's chamber. As you may have guessed, the demonstration did not go according to plan. More »

8:00 PM on Thu Jul 5 2007
By Wilson Rothman
36,630 views, 57 comments

Latest by Slappy McBappy: XTol7 could be right -- it's just a con against their one investor -- but looking at their web site where they're trying to license their "technology," I'm guessing they were hoping some naive conglomerate or more »