Scientists flock to test 'free energy' discovery

August 24, 2006

David Smith

Sunday August 20, 2006

The Observer

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.

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