The Energy Entrepreneur Pioneers Take On The Oil Industry Goliath

Raymond J. Learsy At Huffington

A news report -- based on an article in Britain's Guardian newspaper -- hit the wire services earlier this week heralding a "free energy" technology.

According to Sean McCarthy, who heads Steorn, a small high-technology company in Dublin, Ireland, no one was more surprised than he when his firm hit upon a way to generate energy from the interaction of magnetic fields.

The jury is still out on whether the breakthrough is fool's gold or the 24-karat variety, but McCarthy is sufficiently convinced of the validity of the discovery that he took out an ad in The Economist inviting the scientific community to investigate his company's findings.

McCarthy is one of a new breed of entrepreneurs, challenged by the dangers our energy usage presents to our lives, our planet. He and his peers have a common goal: Drive a stake through the heart of our fossil fuel dependency, freeing us at long last from our morbid and expensive addiction.

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