Challenging the Patent office: Dublin company called Steorn claims to have created perpetual motion machine
Because the very concept of a perpetual motion machine violates laws of thermodynamics coupled with the fact that so many scientists have issued patents for it, the US Patent Office now refuses to even take patents for them.
A new company called Steorn not only has become one of the many claiming to invent a PMM, they issued a challenge in the pages of the Economist for any scientists to prove them wrong:
Dublin-based technology risk management company, Steorn, has challenged the scientific community to prove it wrong. In an advertisement found in the most recent issue of The Economist it has challenged scientists and engineers to test the firm’s free-energy technology and publish the findings. The challenge appears real, but is the technology?
Steorn states that from all the scientists who accept their challenge, twelve will be invited to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove (or disprove) that Steorn’s technology creates free-energy (also known as over-unity). The results will be published worldwide.
Since the company isn’t allowed to patent the device, they’ve patented the individual steps leading up to it, thereby sidestepping the ban against PPMs.
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“Because the very concept of a perpetual motion machine violates laws of thermodynamics coupled with the fact that so many scientists have issued patents for it, the US Patent Office now refuses to even take patents for them.”
That sounds rather like the Pope hiding under the table when Galileo coming to call, saying “la-la-la I can’t hear you”.
Also, as any fule kno, bumblebees contradict the laws of aerodynamics; do entomologists refuse to acknowledge their existence?
Well, I think it more has to do with the fact that SO MANY people have tried to patent the PMM, that the patent office has become flooded and probably has to deal with frivolous law suits all the time, so they finally just up and banned it.
Also, the PMM isn’t completely banned from Patent Office, they say that if you can produce a working model for them to see, they’ll let you patent it.