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Steorn Ltd is a small, private technology development company in Dublin, Ireland. It announced in August 2006 it had developed a technology which provides "free, clean, and constant energy" in violation of the law of conservation of energy,〔 a fundamental principle of physics.〔 Steorn challenged the scientific community to investigate their claim〔 and, in December 2006, said that it had chosen a jury of scientists to do so.〔 In June 2009 the jury gave its unanimous verdict that Steorn had not demonstrated the production of energy.〔 Steorn has also given two public demonstrations of their technology. In the first demonstration, in July 2007 at the Kinetica Museum in London, the device failed to work.〔 The second demonstration, which ran from December 2009 to February 2010 at the Waterways Visitor Centre in Dublin, involved a motor powered by a battery and provided no independent evidence that excess energy was being generated.〔 It was dismissed by the press as an attempt to build a perpetual motion machine, and a publicity stunt.〔 ==History== Steorn was founded in 2000〔 〕 and, in October 2001, their website stated that they were a "specialist service company providing programme management and technical assessment advice for European companies engaging in e-commerce projects". Steorn is a Norse word meaning to guide or manage. In May 2006, ''The Sunday Business Post'' reported that Steorn was a former dot-com company which was developing a microgenerator product based on the same principle as self-winding watches, as well as creating e-commerce websites for customers. The company had also recently raised about €2.5 million from investors and was three years into a four-year development plan for its microgenerator technology.〔 〕 Steorn has since stated that the account given in this interview was intended to prevent a leak regarding their free energy technology.〔 〕 The company's investment history shows several share allotments for cash between August 2000 and October 2005,〔 〕 the investments totalling €3 million.〔 In 2006, Steorn secured €8.1 million in loans from a range of investors in order to continue their research, and these funds were also converted into shares.〔 〕 Steorn said that they would seek no further funding while attempting to prove their free-energy claim in order to demonstrate their genuine desire for validation.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steorn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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