For those who care about follow-ups:

stjury.ning.com/forum/topics/jury-announcement

Jury Announcement In August 2006 the Irish company Steorn published an advertisement in the Economist announcing the development of “a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy”. Qualified experts were sought to form a “jury” to validate these claims. Twenty-two independent scientists and engineers were selected by Steorn to form this jury. It has for the past two years examined evidence presented by the company. The unanimous verdict of the Jury is that Steorn’s attempts to demonstrate the claim have not shown the production of energy. The jury is therefore ceasing work. The jury consists of scientists and engineers in relevant fields from Europe and North America, from industry, universities and government laboratories. Information about individual members can be found at stjury.ning.com/ R.I.MacDonald

Chairman, Steorn Jury

It would be nice if the jury could let us know what evidence they have been given. I suspect this will be bound up in dreary non-disclosure agreements forbidding any open discussion of evidence. If any of the jury would like to pass me some or all of Steorn’s unconvincing evidence, in the public interest I am, as ever, on ben@badscience.net

Meanwhile here is a weak response from the company:

www.steorn.com/news/releases/?id=1151 Jury Report Steorn today confirmed that the internet ‘blog’ stjury.ning.com had been posted on behalf of members of the Jury of scientists that Steorn had engaged to conduct an independent review of its Orbo Technology. In a statement, Steorn CEO, Sean McCarthy said that “he was grateful to the Jury members for the time and effort that they had devoted to the process.” McCarthy continued on to state that he “fully understood the frustration of the Jury members with respect to the time that the process was taking. Implementing Orbo in a reliable and consistent manner had remained a challenge for the organization, one that we had made no secret of. Due to these difficulties we had focused on providing the Jury with test data relating to the underlying magnetic effect behind Orbo. This work concluded at the end of 2008.” McCarthy concluded by stating that “during 2009 the company had resolved the key technical problems related to the implementation of Orbo and is now focused on commercial launch towards the end of this year, at which time academic and engineering validation would be released concurrent with public demonstrations”.

Read more about Steorn:

www.badscience.net/2007/07/steorn-perpetual-motion-machine-demo-fails-astonishingly-to-materialise/

www.badscience.net/2007/07/hilarious-steorn-post-mortem-video/

And another free energy joker here:

www.badscience.net/2007/11/free-energy/