An Irish technology company today challenged the global scientific community to test its "free-energy" technology.
Sean McCarthy, chief executive of Steorn
Dublin-based Steorn said its technology based on the interaction of magnetic fields allows the production of clean, free and constant energy, challenging a fundamental scientific principle that you cannot destroy or create energy.
Sean McCarthy, chief executive of Steorn, has placed an advertisement in the Economistseeking the world's leading scientists working in the field of experimental physics to examine the technology.
"We are under no illusions that there will be a lot of cynicism out there about our proposition, as it challenges one of the basic principles of physics," he said.
"However, the implications of our technology go far beyond scientific curiosity; it addresses many urgent global needs including security of energy supply and zero emission energy production."
The company, based in Dublin's Docklands Innovation Park, is looking for 12 highly qualified scientists to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove the technology creates free energy.
Over the past two to three years, around 90 per cent of the scientists the company requested to examine the technology refused. Mr McCarthy said the 10 per cent who investigated the technology drew the same conclusion as the company, that it can create energy.
Mr McCarthy revealed the poor response by the scientific community had left it with no choice but to make a public appeal, and said the results of research by the scientific community will be published regardless of the outcome.