We now know for more than a century that energy cannot be created and that it cannot be destroyed. It just transforms itself. But and Irish firm claims the contrary.

Sean McCarthy is the head of Steorn, a small hi-tech firm in Dublin. What brought him to fame was an advertisement page he bought in The Economist last week, inviting the scientific community to test his announced invention, which by the way, violates the very first principle of thermodynamics.

“We are under no illusions that there will be a lot of cynicism out there about our proposition, as it challenges one of the basic principles of physics,” he said.

“However, the implications of our technology go far beyond scientific curiosity: they address many urgent global needs including security of energy supply and zero emission energy production.”

The company, based in Dublin’s Docklands Innovation Park, is seeking 12 scientists to take part in a rigorous testing exercise to prove the technology creates free energy.

'It wasn't so much a Eureka moment as a get-back-in-there-and-check-your-instruments moment, although in far more colorful language,' said McCarthy.

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