Steorn Back In Public Forum - Summary

Steorn posted that their ISP had major problems with their European network yesterday that resulted in a 16hr outage. While in the forum, Sean took some time to speak to some of the forum regulars.

A condensed summary of the main talking points below or if you prefer the full thread discussion is here halfway down the page

wtec - What's coming up? Any rough timetables you can share? As I recall, commercialization begins before the end of the year. Can you tell us anything about what form that will take? Or what the public rollout will look like?

Steorn: The talks have been taking place - the exact details of the launch will become clear as it happens.

Steorn: Commecialization has already started - its been in progress since Feb of this year, public launch of Orbo will be this winter.

thebadger: Can you outline what format the public launch will take?

Steorn: It will the opening of our developer forum to the wider product development community, public demos and all that stuff.

wtec: Are the talks open to the public? If so, is there any way we can find out when and where they are? If you come to the Pacific Northwest of the US, I'd like to come see one.

Steorn: They are not open to the public, they are only open to teachers and students from the Unis, we will be doing more public stuff next year.

cordex: Didn't you promise to hold off commercialization until the jury reached a verdict? If so, how does a February start to commercialization fit in with the jury's June verdict?

Steorn: First I can't talk about the details of the Jury process due to the nature of the contract that exists - so read into that whatever you want. As for demos - what makes you think that we have not been doing private demos (which we have), but not yet to the OS that is for sure. When we do do demos to the OS it will not make it into the public domain due to the license agreements in place.

wtec: Is the documentary still happening?

Steorn: Yep the documentary is still being made, and I do hope that the whole story is in a position to get released.

Barclays: Poor documentary director, four years in the make, not being able to show the result of his work due to the NDA he signed. Guess he is not being paid by the hour .

Steorn: longer than four years, and it will not be Steorn that will try to restrict content. We cant even if we wanted to - we have no right to interfer with it.

Evolvealready: Are all of your fully working rigs CEMF rigs?

Steorn: Both 'brands' of the tech (PM and EM) are based on the same principle - the EM version is far more robust and reliable and produces elec output directly - so that is the first commercial version that we will be releasing.

Kaiser Jive Albino: Sean, You said you built and demoed privately some self sustaining machines. How long did you got one to run without any energy input so far?

Steorn: Power output is a funstion of speed of the system - so if you want high power output then you need to reduce rotary losses vacuum sealing and all that stuff - we do not get too heavily involved in that area because it adds no value to what we are selling - we are selling the right to implement Orbo, not a box with it in it.

Check out the developers forum when we launch at the end of the year - then you will get all the techie details that you need.

wtec: Are the nodding donkeys ever going to happen? If so, can Forum members get one at a discount?

Steorn: Not a donkey anymore - we will put one product into the market ourselves (P-One) - but I will not go into any further details on it.

Evolvealready: Have you gotten a PM rig to self-sustain?

Steorn: Yep.

Morgenster: What's the application most likely to come out first?

Steorn: No idea - other than P-One - we will have no control over what developers try to develop - it will be up to them.

Morgenster: So how come you're so sure there's going to be a tangible product by year's end?
Have some licensees shown something tangible that's ready for production? It is after all, September.

Steorn: I did not say that there would be a tangible product this year - I said that we would have a public launch of the tech this year (i.e. it becomes available to the wider product development community).

The thread in full

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Steorn.com webservers down at the moment

Looks like the Steorn webserver/s are down at the moment. I'd like to suggest that www.freeenergytalk.com is available for all your free energy discussion needs until normal service at Steorn is resumed. :-)

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Neodymium, Free Energy and China - The New Gold

Could Neodymium Be The New Gold?

Recent reports like this one in the NY Times have spoken of China's intention to severely limit exports of rare earth metals. One of these rare earth metals is Neodymium which is used primarily to make permanent magnets.

China produces around 95% of all rare earth supplies with other smaller deposits located in North America, Canada and Australia so comparative to oil exports they are the Saudi Arabia of the rare-earth mining world.

These neodymium magnets are a vital component in electric motors and no doubt will be in even greater demand as we move towards large scale electric car production. The Toyota Prius uses several pounds of neodymium in it's electric motor for example.

Despite the growing demand from industry, China has been cutting back exports of rare-earth metals for the past few years citing local environmental concerns from these rare earth mines.

The present worldwide situation concerning China and Neodyimium is of concern to industry because so many products rely on this material in their construction. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (responsible for rare earths) have since withdrawn from the severity of their draft plan to severely limit exports but production will still struggle to keep pace with demand no matter what.

There is however another huge factor that no one has discussed and has yet to come into play; the upcoming unprecedented demand for free energy electromagnetic overunity products based on Orbo technology.

The surge in demand for these products and technologies will require extremely large quantities of Neodymium to be supplied worldwide, much more than currently imagined. With China holding 95% of the market and in posession of the largest rare-earth deposits while at the same time restricting supply it will result in a massive increase in price of these materials. Even with the Mountain Pass mine in California coming back onstream demand will likely be completely off the scale.

As of late 2008, Neodymium was trading at around $42/kg. If events play out as expected with the release of Orbo technology we could see Neodymium prices reaching many hundreds of dollars per kilo - perhaps even higher. Could Neodymium soon be worth it's weight in gold?

From the Steorn website:

Orbo is a technology that creates energy from magnetic interactions. Orbo provides free,
clean and constant energy at the point of use.

Orbo 1.0, the first commercial release of our platform technology, is based upon our electromagnetic implementation. Orbo 1.0 will be made available initially under license to 300 engineering companies and to the wider product development community later during the course of 2009.

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Steorn

The events over the last week and especially the last 24hrs have been more than worth the 3 year wait. And to see so many good people work together with purpose has been inspiring.

Thank-you Steorn for allowing me to be part of it.

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More University Validation For Blacklight Power

BlackLight Power, Inc. Announces Independent Validation of Breakthrough New Energy Source Based on a New Form of Hydrogen and Chemistry Capable of Continuous Regeneration.

Cranbury, NJ (August 12, 2009)—BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) today announces that scientists at Rowan University have for the first time independently formulated and tested fuels that on demand generated energy greater than that of combustion at power levels of kilowatts using BLP’s proprietary solid-fuel chemistry capable of continuous regeneration. Operating power systems using BLP’s chemistry, Rowan University professors have reported a net energy gain of up to 6.5 times the maximum energy potential of the materials in the system from known chemical reactions.

In a joint statement, Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Rowan University Meritorious Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Dr. Amos Mugweru, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Peter Jansson P.E., Associate Professor of Engineering said, “In independent tests conducted over the past three months involving 10 solid fuels made by us from commercially-available chemicals, our team of engineering and chemistry professors, staff, and students at Rowan University has independently and consistently generated energy in excesses ranging from 1.2 times to 6.5 times the maximum theoretical heat available through known chemical reactions.”

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EEStor just months from launch?

According to an alleged leaked telephone interview, controversial energy technology company EEstor is just months away from launching a revolutionary capacitor. Their capacitor technology would allow a full charge of a device in minutes while being able to retain that charge and release slowly over days.

This would open the door for lighter, more powerful and quickly charging devices such as iPods, and other portable electronic devices, but by far the biggest advantage would be in making the electric car a commercial reality.

The information comes from an alleged leaked telephone call between an interviewer and EEstor CEO Dick Weir. Back in May ZENN Motor Company confirmed that their own independent testing verified that eeStor's capacitors were performing as promised.

With the Steorn launch of Orbo free energy technology also this year it looks like things are hotting up.

Full transcript of conversation here

EEStor on Wikipedia

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