From: Roarty, Francis X * David Sarfatti wrote: 'Here is the fallacy with the Haisch patent, I believe : Since the atoms of the gas are in a lower energy state within the Casimir cavity, they are, in effect, in an energy well. Hence, they will experience a net force causing them to remain in the cavity. The energy required to remove them from the cavity will be exactly balanced by the net gain from the ambient ZPF.
This is correct, as far as it goes. The Haisch patent probably will not work for gain for this reason, without more. However, there is a similar situation involving "Casimir cooling" followed by 'something else' - which has been shown to work - that is the niche knows as Arata-Zhang. In the A-Z experiment and the numerous variations, there are no cavities per see, but instead the active powder has nano surface features, which promote hydrogen spillover. This form of hydrogen then accumulates in open-ended "Casimir pits" where it apparently further densifies becoming what is being called "pycno" (from the Greek word meaning 'dense'). The inimitable George Miley has suggested that an incredible density level can result from either deuterium or hydrogen when done optimally. I would not want to argue against that view. As noted before in previous posts on this, hydrogen would become bosonic as an atom, and only as an atom. Hydrogen might even "stack" to a greater density level than deuterium, which is bosonic but with more constituent parts to equalize, compared to pycno-hydrogen, which can be suggested to be monatomic hydrogen in an extremely dense mode, and also extremely cold (energy depleted) due to the Casimir pits - which as Sarfatti warns, will not do us any good -IF- that is the end-of-story. Something else is needed. But it does not take a genius to realize that with a nano-pit that can contain many thousands of atoms, a number of "new" (nuclear and supra-chemical) reactions become possible. if for no other reason than the near-field. One of the most important papers in the last two years could be: "Ultrahigh-density deuterium of Rydberg matter clusters for inertial confinement fusion targets". L. Holmlid, H. Hora, G. Miley and X. Yang, Laser and Particle Beams 27 (2009) 529-532. There is reason to believe that some of this pycno/ICF work has been sequestered by the powers that be . which does not mean it is correct. However, it is easy to understand why - the possibility of ICF using commercially available lasers and easily fabricated targets could be unsettling to some. Jones
