The Impossible Dream: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Steorn, the Celtic Tiger’s Most Audacious Start-up - Brossura

Whyte, Barry J.

 
9780717188048: The Impossible Dream: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Steorn, the Celtic Tiger’s Most Audacious Start-up
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ISBN 10: 0717188043 ISBN 13: 9780717188048
Casa editrice: Gill & Macmillan, 2020

Sinossi

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 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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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

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Editore
Gill & Macmillan
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0717188043
ISBN 13 
9780717188048
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
272
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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