Sean McCarthy, DUBLIN, IRELAND — Steorn, a technology development company, has today announced a cut-off date for scientists to respond to its challenge to take part in a public validation of its free energy technology. The deadline has been set for 12 midnight, September 8th. Steorn placed an advertisement in the Economist on August 18th inviting ‘the most qualified and the most cynical’ scientists to step forward. More than 3,000 scientists have responded thus far. Steorn’s technology is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy. The company says the technology can be applied to virtually all devices requiring energy, from cellular phones to cars. From all the scientists who accept Steorn’s challenge, 12 will be invited to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove that Steorn’s technology creates free energy. The results will be published worldwide. Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, said: ‘We expected a good response to our advertisement because of its potential and its implications for the scientific world. Our technology goes far beyond scientific curiosity and addresses many urgent global needs including security of energy […]
Climate change melts ice, enables broccoli to be grown in Greenland, and brings wildlife for which the locals have no native names By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Published: Selling ice-cream to Eskimos used to be the definition of a tough sales pitch – but now it has been put in the shade. For as the world heats up, the Inuit are scrambling to install air conditioning, and electricity prices north of Quebec have been slashed specially to enable them to do so. The new need to chill out in the Arctic is just one of the bewildering changes being forced on one of the world’s last remaining hunting peoples. Their snowmobiles have been falling through the melting ice, and the Inuit are finding themselves lost for words as new species for which they have no names in their language appear. And, in places, they have had to dig wells, as they can no longer rely on snows for water. Temperatures in the Arctic have been rising twice as quickly as in the world as a whole. Sea ice has shrunk by a quarter in area and a half in thickness since 1978, and its decline is […]
WORCESTER, Massachusetts — A U.S. company that developed a way to make human embryonic stem cells without harming the original embryo said on Friday it was optimistic the technique would overcome ethical concerns that have held back funding for stem cell research. California-based Advanced Cell Technology Inc. developed the technology to quell the raging ethical debate in the United States over the harvesting of embryonic stem cells, which under current methods results in destruction of human embryos. ‘For most rational people this removes the last rational objection for opposing this research,’ Advanced Cell’s chief scientist, Robert Lanza, said in an interview at the company’s Worcester research center. The White House on Thursday said it was encouraged by a new method and Bush believed it deserved a good look. Bush last month vetoed an expansion of federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, saying U.S. taxpayers who object to such research should not have to pay for it. Opponents have a range of objections that include a distaste for manipulating or destroying what they see as a potential human life, and some experts said the technique announced on Wednesday would not resolve ethical debates and political battles […]
SYDNEY — British scientists have found that enzymes cheat time and space by quantum tunnelling – a much faster way of travelling than the classical way – but whether or not perplexing quantum theories can be applied to the biological world is still hotly debated. Until now, no one knew just how the enzymes speed up the reactions, which in some cases are up to a staggering million times faster. ‘Our research has shown at an atomic level how enzymes act as catalysts,’ said Nigel Scrutton, lead researcher at the University of Manchester. Just how these enzymes speed up reaction rates compared with uncatalysed reactions remain controversial among scientists, but such insights of the underpinnings of enzyme behaviour have begun. ‘Enzymes are central to the existence of life because most chemical reactions in our cells would take place too slowly or produce a difference outcome without their involvement,’ he said. Without enzymes, we’d wither away or be riddled with disease. As biological molecules, the enzymes work to lower the energy needed for a reaction to occur. Although enzymes act as catalysts, they are often affected by other molecules. Therefore, when drugs are made, they […]
Personally speaking, I couldn’t be more delighted. The instruction to drink eight glasses of water a day has never seemed either appealing or practical. That amount of water makes it uncomfortable to emulate the habits of the camel when away from home for more than an hour and to sleep through the night without interruption. It is even less captivating when you consider that dedicated water enthusiasts will only consume it from bottles. Think about the landfills stuffed with discarded plastic. And why would you opt to pay for bottled water when you are already obliged to write a check for the stuff that’s pumped through your faucet? Which may, indeed, be the same stuff that is filling some of those pricey bottles. Remember when, in 2004, the Coca-Cola Company had to confess that the UK version of Dasani came from the London public water mains? But in fact the same charge could be leveled at most supermarket own-label bottled water. Or any bottled water with ‘purified’ on the label. It will have been filtered again or treated to ultraviolet light or perhaps have been carbonated or had minerals added. But nonetheless, it’s water you […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
