What is "steorn"

Steorn Ltd is a small, private technology development company based in Dublin, Ireland. It announced in August 2006 it had developed a technology which provides "free, clean, and constant energy", apparently 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.

In December 2015, Steorn began taking orders for the €1,200 Orbo Cube, a device claimed to power a mobile phone without the need for charging.