DUBLIN (AFP) - An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to theworldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developedthat it claims produces free energy.

The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction ofmagnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constantenergy — a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics.

It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars.

Steorn issued its challenge through an advertisement in the Economistmagazine this week quoting Ireland’s Nobel prize-winning author GeorgeBernard Shaw who said that “all great truths begin as blasphemies”.

Sean McCarthy, Steorn’s chief executive officer, said they had issuedthe challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so itcan be developed.

“What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so thatwhen you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at thesame position, you have gained energy,” McCarthy said.

“The energy isn’t being converted from any other source such as theenergy within the magnet. It’s literally created. Once the technologyoperates it provides a constant stream of clean energy,” he toldIreland’s RTE radio.

McCarthy said Steorn had not set out to develop the technology, but “itactually fell out of another project we were working on”.

One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.

McCarthy said a big obstacle to overcome was the disbelief that what they had developed was even possible.

“For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn’tbelieve it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorouslytested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on,”he said.

“But we have been unable to get significant scientific interest in it.We have had scientists come in, test it and, off the record, they arequite happy to admit that it works.

“But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples’lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain andhence the challenge,” McCarthy said.

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