Orbo - "free, clean, and constant energy"

Kworn

Perpetual Motion

This is, in essence, a claim that the company has developed free energy technology, or a perpetual motion machine. Such technology would violate the fundamental laws of thermodynamics and the first law of thermodynamics in particular. To date no evidence to support the company's claim has been made public.

On 4 July 2007 a simplified example of the technology was to be put on public display at the Kinetica Museum, Spitalfields Market, London. It was said that the displayed unit would be constructed of clear plastic to show the arrangement of magnets and demonstrate that the device operated without external power sources.The public demonstration was delayed and then cancelled due to "technical difficulties" which, according to Steorn, resulted from "excessive heat from the lighting in the main display area".

The Orbo from Steorn what do you guys think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbo

I dont recall this being discussed on here before.

saint2e

SE++ response:

Recall harder: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=28333

D&D response:

Yeah, there's a thread on the second page which covers this. Might be a good idea to necropost it if you want to bring it back for another round of discussion.

Linden

General conclusion was "no, that's idiotic". If you must talk about it, though, please do read the previous thread(s). And, incidentally, D&D was sent G&T's thread on it as well – there's been a fair amount of discussion on the topic.

RoundBoy

This thread topic itself is perpetual motion...

Irond Will

Yeah - thread on page 2. In short, it didn't work because it doesn't work.