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Feedback: Free energy dreams deliver endless fruitloopery

29 July 2015

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Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

Orbo offers endless spin

PERPETUAL motion devices continue to deliver amusement, if not the promised free energy. Feedback previously discussed the Enclosed Loop Electric Windmill System, a device that raised $3 of investment capital on crowd-funding site Kickstarter (18 July).

Imagine how delighted we are to discover that the charmers behind the Irish company Steorn are still cranking out promises of revolutionary free energy, almost a decade after challenging the scientific community to debunk their over-unity Orbo device. That challenge wasn’t…

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