Impossible Dream (eBook)

Barry J Whyte (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
272 Seiten
Gill Books (Verlag)
978-0-7171-8805-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In 2006, a previously unknown Irish technology company by the name of Steorn created headlines globally when it took out a full-page ad in The Economist, in which it claimed to have made the scientific breakthrough of this - or any other - century: perpetual motion, nothing less than a complete and immediate solution to the global energy crisis. The investment money poured in, with some of Ireland's most respected entrepreneurs and institutions getting on board, but the demonstration of their perpetual-motion machine was a spectacular failure. So how did so many well-meaning and otherwise sensible people get things so desperately, absurdly wrong? The story begins with a malfunctioning CCTV system and ends with an exploding battery, and it drives home Ireland's frenzied state of mind during the Celtic Tiger years.

Autor

Barry J Whyte is an award-winning journalist and author. He is currently Chief Feature Writer for the Business Post.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Barry Whyte • business memoir • Heating • Hepha Heat • kinetic energy • Laws of Physics • magnetism • Mike Daly • Orbo • Pat Corbett • perpetual motion • Robert Seale • Shaun McCarthy • Steorn • The Celtic Tiger • The Impossible Dream • True story
• ISBN-10: 0-7171-8805-1 / 0717188051
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7171-8805-5 / 9780717188055