In Flux

Today in the forums, Grimer points us to Kinetica's next exhibition, In Flux, featuring 8 international artists. Interestingly, Steorn is sponsoring the event:


So far, this is the closest thing to news this September.

Upstairs at Kinetica, A Spinning Orbo

An anonymous source has posted youtube videos of demo visitors working on the failed orbo demo device. In the videos we get a better view of what the demo looked like. The third video includes a spinning orbo, although it seems the magnets actually slow the thing down.

Also in the videos, you see a lot of camera flashes, so there should be more photos out there of the entire event. If anyone out there has additional video or photos, feel free to email me at wgorman AT gmail DOT com. Check out the ENERGY IS NOT YET FREE blog for the inside scoop.

Free Energy, Next Time

The CEO of Steorn, Sean McCarthy, has publicly announced that the Kinetica Demo of Steorn's Orbo will be postponed until further notice:

Folks,

We have had to make the unfortunate decision to deffer the public demonstration of our technology that was due to start on the 4th. I am very sorry that we have had to take this decision, I will provide a more detailed explanation of the reasons behind the decision later.

I would like to invite any of the forum members (SPDC or otherwise) who are in London to meet me at 15:00 here in Kinetica, were I will be available to answer any questions.

Very sorry about this, hope to see some of you at 15:00.

Thanks,

Sean

Steorn has also posted a press release regarding the decision:

Further to Steorn’s announcement yesterday (5th July) regarding the technical difficulties experienced during the installation of its “Orbo” technology at the Kinentica Museum in London, Steorn has decided to postpone the demonstration until further notice.

Sean McCarthy CEO stated that “technical problems arose during the installation of the demonstration unit in the display case on Wednesday evening. These problems were primarily due to excessive heat from the lighting in the main display area. Attempts to replace those parts affected by the heat led to further failures and as a result we have to postpone the public demonstration until a future date.”

He continued that “we apologise for the inconvenience caused to all the people who had made arrangements to visit the demonstration or were planning on viewing the demonstration online.”

Over the next few weeks the company will explore alternative dates for the public demonstration.

Kinetica Museum Walk Around Video

To give us a better feel of Steorn's setup, RunningBare posted this video of the outside of the Kinetica Museum:

While we wait: Kinetica and Orbo Photos

dobson points us to some photos he took while visiting the Kinetica Museum this week. (Here is a link to his flickr page):

"Too bad that Richard claims not to understand words like Entropy and Conservation. "

"Some of these guys had traveled a very long way to check out the Steorn exhibition, needless to say they were quite upset that it had not yet opened."

Another reader points us to this photo of Sean holding an Orbo:


If anyone scanned in the whole print article, let me know. The photo looks like the same hands and shirt that held the Orbo in Silicon Republic's article:


And so now we're still waiting on a higher resolution photo of the device. Hopefully Steorn will solve their technical problems and get the device on display. Then we can have some better photos, and something more to talk about then one of the most important laws, Murphy's.

Photos of the Lab, No Load

One of our readers was able to get this photo of the lab where Steorn is working on the device:

"Attached are 2 pictures of the upstairs of Kinetica-Museum which Steorn are using as a temporary workshop. You can see a perspex disc, blu tack, a drill, a hammer and a hack saw. Over unity it would seem does not seem to require more than a few basic household tools! Though those hot lights clear play havoc with the blu tack!!!"

He was also able to speak with a Steorn employee:

You can also see pictures of the red jacketed Steorn employee I vented my spleen at around 10.00am, telling him that I had never in my 20 years in technology sales and marketing seen such an incredible display of incompetence. He had no answer to the most obvious of questions. He presented himself as a spokesman for Steorn.
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Most tellingly he admitted before 4 witnesses that there was no load bearing Orbo device inside the Kinetica museum. No weights being lifted by any device. Just a spinning Orbo (still requiring fixing) . He explicitly said that "the load bearing device is back in Dublin".

Our first view of Orbo, All 4 Cameras are Live

Camera 1:

Camera 2:
Camera 3:

Camera 4:

Kinetica Museum Update with Photos

The Kinetica Museum website has been updated:

From 5th-13th July, visitors to Kinetica can witness for themselves 'Orbo' as it perpetually spins a clear polycarbonate wheel with absolutely no supply of external energy or power supply attached.

THE MUSEUM OPENS AT 11AM ON THURSDAY 5TH JULY

Also, thanks to one of our readers, here are pictures of the outside of the Kinetica Museum:

"True Science teaches us to doubt, and in ignorance, refrain" - Claude Bernard

Update:
On Steorn's Website:

Due to technical difficulties we will now be live from London on the 5th July.

CEO vs CoE

The battle is about to begin. An anonymous poster here along with an anonymous emailer point us to this video:

As you can see from the video, Sean McCarthy is wearing a custom Steorn "CEO vs CoE" t-shirt, in front of some building smoking a cigarette. While the author of the video could have done a better job at showing us that they are actually at the Kinetica Museum in London, I'm sure someone here can verify the building.