On December 17th, Steorn CEO Sean McCarthy did give a lecture and take questions at the Dublin Institute of Technology, as promised. Audio recordings of the talk can be found here (downloadable) and here (streaming). First off, once again no Orbo was demonstrated. Most of the talk consisted of information that we’ve heard before: Steorn’s […]

Steorn has added a new page to their web site, advertising a series of talks they’ll be giving, beginning this month: Our ‘talk’ initiative is designed to give people within the technology development community an opportunity to understand the Orbo proposition and ask questions in a direct, face-to-face format. The programme of talks starts in […]

In an interview that appeared in Ireland’s Sunday Tribune newspaper August 10th, Steorn CEO Sean McCarthy asserts that development of their Orbo technology, as well as its testing by a jury of 22 scientists, is still on track — and that Steorn expects to launch Orbo and demonstrate it publicly before next summer. According to […]

July 4th, 2007: The day that a small Irish company dumbfounded the scientific community and changed the world by paving the way to complete independence from fossil fuels. That’s the way Steorn would have liked to have seen history written, anyhow. Instead, the day produced just another in a long line of failed demonstrations of […]

…Alive enough to send lawyers my way, anyhow. The original domain name for this blog included the words “Steorn” and “Orbo”. When Steorn made it clear in their forums last year that they don’t approve of domain names that include their trademarks, I changed this site’s domain to dispatchesfromthefuture.com. I stopped promoting the original domain […]