Dublin-based technology risk management company, Steorn, has challenged the scientific community to prove it wrong. In an advertisement found in the most recent issue of The Economist it has challenged scientists and engineers to test the firm’s free-energy technology and publish the findings. The challenge appears real, but is the technology? Steorn states that from all the scientists who accept their challenge, twelve will be invited to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove (or disprove) that Steorn’s technology creates free-energy (also known as over-unity). The results will be published worldwide. According to Steorn the technology is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy. The technology can be scaled to virtually all devices requiring energy, from cellular phones to cars. Assuming their claims can be validated, Steorn intends to license its technology to organizations within the energy sector. It will allow use of its technology royalty-free for certain purposes including water and rural electrification projects in Third World countries. The Challenge Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, has said that he posted this challenge in the pages of The Economist to catch the attention […]
IRELAND — is set to turn down, for the first time, a United Nations call for peacekeeping troops following intelligence that there is little prospect of a permanent ceasefire in Lebanon and that the Hizbollah will refuse to disarm. In today’s Sunday Independent, Minister for Defence Willie O’Dea said he will not be sending soldiers into a conflict zone where they would be in ‘mortal danger’. The decision by Ireland, whose Army has had the longest continuous UN peacekeeping service in the war-torn region, could well have wider repercussions for the proposed peacekeeping mission as other Western nations who have traditionally provided vital support back away from the proposed mission. The Sunday Independent has learned that in-depth analysis of the situation in Lebanon by the Defence Forces and the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs has led to the conclusion that the area is far from settled and that war could easily break out again. Four UN observers were killed during the month-long conflict. During the outbreak, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) came under pressure as Hizbollah adopted a tactic of launching attacks from beside UN bases, provoking the Israelis to return fire, […]
A man who claims to have developed a free energy technology which could power everything from mobile phones to cars has received more than 400 applications from scientists to test it. Sean McCarthy says that no one was more sceptical than he when Steorn, his small hi-tech firm in Dublin, hit upon a way of generating clean, free and constant energy from the interaction of magnetic fields. ‘It wasn’t so much a Eureka moment as a get-back-in-there-and-check-your-instruments moment, although in far more colourful language,’ said McCarthy. But when he attempted to share his findings, he says, scientists either put the phone down on him or refused to endorse him publicly in case they damaged their academic reputations. So last week he took out a full-page advert in the Economist magazine, challenging the scientific community to examine his technology. McCarthy claims it provides five times the amount of energy a mobile phone battery generates for the same size, and does not have to be recharged. Within 36 hours of his advert appearing he had been contacted by 420 scientists in Europe, America and Australia, and a further 4,606 people had registered to receive the results.
WASHINGTON — About 11 million illegal immigrants were living in the U.S. at the start of this year, the federal government said in a report Friday. That’s up from an estimated 8.5 million living in the country in January 2000, according to calculations by the Office of Immigration Statistics in the Department of Homeland Security. The office estimated that 10.5 million illegal immigrants were living in the United States in January 2005 and that the number grew at a national average of 408,000 a year. Estimates of the size of the illegal immigrant population vary widely according to the political leanings of groups using them. The federal government acknowledged the difficulty of getting an accurate count in its report, saying estimates involve assumptions and combinations of data. A Homeland Security spokeswoman could not be reached immediately. In March, the Pew Hispanic Center used Census Bureau data to estimate that the United States had 11.1 million illegal immigrants in March 2005. The center used monthly population estimates to project a total of 11.5 million to 12 million in March. Mexico is the largest contributing country of illegal immigrants, with nearly 6 million in the […]
SEATTLE — In August, when much of the world is hard at work trying to do nothing, Jeff Hopkins and his wife, Denise, usually take a week to chase fish in Olympic National Park – a ferry ride and two tanks of gas from here with a boat in tow. But this year, their summer vacation is dead, a victim of $3-a-gallon gas and job uncertainty. ‘This is our vacation,’ said Mr. Hopkins, loading up his drift boat for an evening of fishing in the city just after getting off work at the Boeing plant, where he has been employed for 15 years. Even before toothpaste could clog an airport security line and a full tank of gas was considered an indulgence, Americans had begun to sour on the traditional summer vacation. But this summer, a number of surveys show that American workers, who already take fewer vacations than people in nearly all industrial nations, have pruned back their leisure days even more. The Conference Board, a private research group, found that at the start of the summer, 40 percent of consumers had no plans to take a vacation over the next six months – the lowest […]
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