Back before it shut down, group blog The Community At Large posted quite a bit on Steorn, an Irish company who claimed to have built a free energy device that created more energy than it used. (Steorn official website, wikipedia entry.)

Well now, maybe they’ve been beaten to the punch by an American?

Thane Heins is nervous and hopeful. It’s Jan. 24, a Thursday afternoon, and in four days the Ottawa-area native will travel to Boston where he’ll demonstrate an invention that appears – though he doesn’t dare say it – to operate as a perpetual motion machine.

Full news article here. Steorn is mentioned in the article. They both mention magnets and electromagnetism and all that so is it possible that our very own physics-ignoring country men are about to be trumped? Or maybe they’ve all discovered the same thing in different ways?

There’s videos of the device, called Perepiteia, on youtube.

Found at giant American super-blag Boing Boing.