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.

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I'm a little confused here. In the interest of curiosity and my skeptical mind I started looking for Ian MacDonald, the chair of the Steorn jury. Initially I thought that this was the Ian MacDonald at the University of Waterloo but that person is actually in their IT department and not a professor at all. And then I realized, from the obvious tie on Ian's page of the Jury site (http://stjury.ning.com/profile/IanMacDonald) that he is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. So, I started looking for him there. Now, there is an Ian MacDonald at UoA but he's not a professor of Electrical Engineering but of Ophthalmology. Now, again, it is possible this is still not the correct Ian MacDonald but I would think that someone that is so clearly important to this entire project would have at least been noted by the University of Alberta for his work.
I could be completely wrong on all of this but I'm wondering if this is all just a very elaborate hoax in and of itself.

But that's rather my point. In an attempt to garner free publicity, why wouldn't the University of Alberta have this plastered all over their website.

It all feels a little odd to me.

Reading through the product descriptions of Steorn's Orbo, aka free energy product, it really sounds like utter gibberish. I'm not an electrical engineer but it still sounds like a joke.

Given that they freely participated in the testing of their "free energy," the folks at Steorn seem to be true believers rather than conscious frauds.

It was a waste of time.
Steorn played a joke with the whole world.I was totally frustrated by the verdict.

Three years is too long.I can not imagine why Steorn cheated the whole world.They could benefit from it?

Steorn's response was predictable:

Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, said "The jury hasn

Luckily I came back to visit the Museum right before this article fell off the front page. I'd almost completely forgotten about Steorn. Although the results were as expected, I'm surprised Steorn's website itself is linking to some of the online news of the jury report, especially considering none of their claims have yet been removed from their site.

They are still coming trust me.

Just wait for all the IP to clear by the patent office.

Here is the latest one, kinda busy engineering for company that are supposed to be hoaxers.

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENG&DBSELECT=PCT&SERVER_TYPE=19-10&SORT=41258436-KEY&TYPE_FIELD=256&IDB=0&IDOC=1606115&C=10&ELEMENT_SET=B&RESULT=1&TOTAL=4&START=1&DISP=25&FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,AN,PA,ABSUM-ENG&SEARCH_IA=IB2008003718&QUERY;=(FP/steorn)

http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?locale=&KC=A1&date=20080221&NR=2008020424A1&return=true&CC=WO&FT=D

it really sounds like utter gibberish. I'm not an electrical engineer but it still sounds like a joke.

So, bottom line: How can a real person, Professor Ian McDonald, simultaneously exist and not exist, with no one at the University of Alberta having any knowledge and/or history of his existence? As for Steorn's motives, how about selling stock to the naive who would accept the same old model of an over-balanced wheel - which the Steorn device appears to be?

James Randi.

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