Some practical Steorn data: According to my rough calculations, A 60 HP (45 KW) Steorn motor would be 9000 cm^3 ( 546 in^3 ) or 21 cm cube ( 8" cube ) or 3" high by 13.5" dia cylinder. The stated power density implies a 60 HP motor would weight 6Kg (13 pounds) .
Let's assume that Steorn motors work perpetually with no bad side effects. Given that, I'd like ideas presented on this list about the implications (there are plenty on the Steorn forum). I know this has been discussed before, but I'd like to re-visit the subject given the more specific data. I haven't been able to find the old lists, which were very creative. There are certainly many second order effects on the economy that are not obvious at first as this and other infinite energy technologies ripples out. What are the short term (transient) effects on the society of the sudden appearance of these devices? What would be good investments? What's your long term vision? In particular, I'm most interested in ideas that are so far outside consideration because of conventional engineering wisdom that they haven't even been considered before. Consider this an online "blue sky" meeting regarding free energy in general. Keep the ideas coming. Even a little niche market could be very successful. Some half-baked ideas from memory on previous lists (somewhat jocularly): Buying cheap land under high tension power lines. Selling energy stocks ( and the many subsidiary industry stocks) short. Starting filling station remodeling companies. Buying Neodymium (The Chinese have already cornered that market :-( ). Making retrofit car engines. Inventing heat dissipation technology for portable devices. Selling road and sidewalk heaters to melt snow in north east cities. Build perpetual hot air balloons. Selling power back to the power companies (~US$60.00 per day for a residential generator unit). Desalination plants. No more concern for energy efficiency in homes, vehicles -- the end of the insulation business. No more interest in the middle east at all -- let them go their own way. Extracting gold from sea water. Making gasoline from air and water. Disinfecting drinking and pool water by boiling it. Selling scrap power plant parts. Dismantling wind farms and hydro plants. Replace broadcast antenna towers with perpetually hovering helicopters. Completely new airplane designs where no fuel has to be onboard, and efficiency doesn't matter. Self heating soup cans. Self cooling soft drink cans. Car air conditioners and heaters that are on all the time. Send your car up into the air ( hot air balloon or helicopter rotor) or around the block 'til you call it back -- no parking places needed. Buildings supported by compressed air (should be more immune to earthquakes as well as cheaper). etc.... Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US http://HoytStearns.com
