Steorn

Steorn is an intellectual property company from Ireland that claims to have done the impossible. At least as far as the laws of thermodynamics are concerned.

Their device, which they've named the Orbo, uses magnets in some sort of spin or perhaps orbit. This not only produces energy but apparently more than it takes to power the device itself. In otherwords, perpetual motion.

Now, of course, this is one of the most contested and controversial areas in science. Fraudulent claims of free energy are nothing new; some con artists may set up an impressive demo using smoke and mirrors that land them a big venture capital payout. But as of yet, no one has made this claim and been able to hang around long enough to prove it. Maybe they run too far into the red, or maybe they run from investors. Not to say they're all totally crooked, some could have discovered something by accident they didn't entirely understand, and couldn't understand it well enough to make good on their promises.

But frankly, Steorn seems to have it together. There is apparently a major technical announcement to come after a jury has examined the technology, which should be soon. And this video, credit and link to steornorbo.com, seems to validate the fact that they do have facilities in Ireland and are working on something: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1So7PZM7s

Zero Point Energy, or energy from the vacuum of space, might be what they're tapping into. You can find a lot of research and psuedo-research on the subject, but I think they might be onto something. Tesla always believed in the Ether, or omnipresent energy. In fact he famously disagreed with Einstein on matters of relativity. If you could somehow harness time itself as an engine, you'd never need another power source. What time is exactly and how to harness it are entirely different stories, but the fact is that the universe is full of electromagnetic enigmas Tesla only just barely uncovered.