Is it or Isn't It?

Yesterday, an anonymous poster here and another anonymous source over at Dispatches from the Future claim to know details about the upcoming July demo. I almost didn't blog about the topic, I normally try to make sure any posts I make here have some substance.

Instead of spending time mulling over this potential leak, I'd like to bring up a related point. The SPDC is growing in size, and it will become, or has already become, very difficult to determine which members leak proprietary information out to the public, and even if it is possible to determine who leaked the information, the situation still boils down to the information being leaked.

For this reason, I find the SPDC NDA requirement a bit silly. Steorn must have realized from the start that anything presented to the SPDC has a very good chance of being leaked. The more revealing the information, the more quickly it will make it out to the blog-o-sphere. For those SPDC'ers out there, if this is all real, I cannot imagine a situation where Steorn would provide any substantial information to the entire 200+ SPDC'ers which would allow anyone to replicate their findings. If this is not real, then the SPDC'ers have signed an NDA with a company that has unknown intentions.

Could the whole purpose of this exercise in Free Energy be something as simple as attempting to scale up online security? Could Steorn have raised 14 million euros over the past three years to develop a product that can monitor online contractual agreements or something along those lines?

Disappearing Threads and Questions for Sean

According to folks in the forum and an anonymous commenter here, there were some threads deleted from the Steorn forums today. If anyone has a copy of the deleted posts or could summarize them for me, please email me @ wgorman AT gmail DOT com. I hate it when I miss out on drama like this!

On another note, I'd like to compile a list of questions that everyone has for Steorn, so next time we get a Questions thread or a gabbly chat with Sean we can go in prepared to ask the most interesting questions. Here are a few that I've thought of to get the discussion started:

Jury Questions for Sean:

When visiting the US in February, did you meet with any of the Jurors in person?

When did the Jury's white paper phase begin?

How often does Steorn interact with Jury members? Once a week, once a month? How much time do the Jury members seem to be spending on validation per week?

Business Model Question for Sean:

You've mentioned before that your prime market is mobile consumer electronics. Crank mentioned that she has seen an NDA between Steorn and a global company. In addition to the SPDC, jury process, and internal prototype development, are you actively working with other companies on creating products, or will those companies have to wait till after validation day to start working with Steorn?

Dr. Mike's Visit

Here is the latest from Dr. Mike on his potential visit:

And no, not one word boo since they told me they got the NDA. So we all wait.

Also note, I've got access to Steorn's 2005 financials thanks to nleseul, and there have been some interesting discussions in the forums regarding how Steorn originally discovered their claimed over unity machines. I plan on digging into both this weekend so we'll have something to keep ourselves busy with as we all wait.