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Ask HN: Remember Steorn's Free Energy Thing? What happened with that?
- jerryr 12y agoSorry to reach back to the mid-aughts, but I found myself clicking through Wikipedia and landing on Steorn's entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn What was up with that? Srsly. The Wikipedia entry is unsatisfying. Rational Me says, "Yes, they're obviously a fraud...and they found some gullible people to behoax" but Irrational Me says, "How can I get me some of that?" Interpretation of "How can I get me some of that?" left as an exercise for the reader. tl;dr::someone pays a lot to get everyone excited about (another) free energy theory, hides proof behind paywall. Is this a viable model for the unscrupulous?