7. Steorn Free Energy
Irish energy company Steorn, the next one on our list of biggest internet hoaxes that fooled the world claimed to have created a free energy in 2006. They claimed to have developed a generator called “Orbo”, which supposedly used 1 joule of electricity from a battery, to perform 2 joules of work. The Pure Energy Systems Wiki and E-Cat World were fooled by this hoax. The truth about this hoax is that CEO Sean McCarthy offered to let scientists test this device, and within 36 hours, 420 scientists wanted to experiment with it. The testing began in 2007 by scientists that Steorn picked. By 2009 the jury agreed that there was no evidence that Orbo produced energy.
