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

Whyte, Barry J.

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Gill Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0717188043
ISBN 13 
9780717188048
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar