The A-to-Z of everything nano has a number of dedicated sites, including:
http://www.azonano.com/default.asp
If/when ZPE is harnessed, many observers feel that nanotechnology will
play a huge role. Not surprising at all -- if we assume that the Casimir
force is one aspect of ZPE; and exploiting that spatial geometry will
demand nano-sized devices ... here is one summary article located there:
http://www.azonano.com/Details.asp?ArticleID=1927
for MEMS or microelectromechanical systems. Recently, the story below
precipitated a prediction that this device may soon (hopefully) evolve
into the a proven ZPE transducer:
http://www.physorg.com/news2996.html
... and this has now been taken in a slightly different direction:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/316/5821/95
As mentioned, it is kind of the nano-version of the old tuning-fork
scheme. You remember, the old Keely talk about when one excited tuning
fork, placed in a room of hundreds of thousands of resonant tuning
forks, would cause all the other forks to resonate to a similar
intensity, thus multiplying the energy expressed by this assemblage into
mechanical overunity. There is no proof of this of course... but even
so, can this concept be 'synergized' with the addition of a
ferroelectric effect?
The ferroelectric effect is an electrical phenomenon where ceramic or
polymer crystals or piezoelectrics (usually) display a spontaneous
dipole moment, which can be aligned/reversed by the application of an
electric field.
The term ferroelectricity is used in analogy to ferromagnetism, in which
a material exhibits a permanent magnetic moment. Older publications used
the term "electret" for some ferroelectric materials, but the electret
can be differentiated as being a dielectric material with a permanent or
quasi-permanent electric charge embedded, usually manufacturing.
Injection molded polyethylene plastic is a good example of (often)
unwanted electret properties.
An electret generates internal and external electric fields, and is the
electrostatic equivalent of a permanent magnet. The effect in barium
titanate, a typical ferroelectric of the displacive type, is due to a
polarization 'catastrophe', in which, if an ion is displaced from
equilibrium slightly, the force from the local electric fields due to
the ions in the crystal increase faster than the elastic-restoring
forces. This leads to an asymmetrical shift in the equilibrium ion
positions and hence to a permanent dipole moment. This is probably at
the basis of the EEStro battery technology.
Ferroelectrics often have very large dielectric constants, and thus are
often used as the dielectric material in capacitors. Mitchell Swartz
wrote a relevant paper in IE : Swartz. M., "Dances with Protons -
Ferroelectric Inscriptions in Water/Ice Relevant to Cold Fusion and Some
Energy Systems", Infinite Energy, 44, (2002).
Add to this information (and it is getting hard to keep it all in mind
and in the broader context of energy anomalies, there is a previously
mentioned class of (mostly anecdotal) phenomena which involve, not just
resonance but extreme "resonant persistence"- a kind of reverberation
that seems to last forever.
The aim (of being this precise in verbalization) is to distinguish the
time-frame for resonant decay in situations where the net energy may
possibly surpass the input energy, due to putting the Casimir force to
work at MEMS dimensions. Inherent in this understanding is the need to
focus on the Maxwellian statistical distribution and the so-called
"Boltzmann's tail" of that distribution.
There is a Stone Chapel in Scotland where scientifically recorded echoes
last fifteen seconds, and there are reports of Tibetan singing bowls
with a reverberation period of 2 minutes. Intuitively these "seem" to be
OU because of the return vs. input approximations. BTW, the bowls are
called "singing" because the pitch rises and falls, rather than
progressing in a linear decay. That in itself is indicative of OU.
At say 1000 Hz initially, with a tiny impact, the audible vibrations of
a bowl are decreasing to zero in 30 seconds, or much more and there
would surely be 2,000 secondary "unpowered" sine waves following the
initial "powered" one. It is somewhat surprising that this has not been
given a full treatment in a lab, given the potential for and energy
anomaly, i.e. that a thermodynamic balance has never been performed on
objects like these (that I know of).
All of these related ideas will hare, as a starting point, the present
analogy of the "tuning fork." If you have ever read the Keelynet stuff,
you probably know it is one of Jerry Decker's favorite analogies... but
it is not necessarily overworked as an accurate image. The idea for
finding OU based on MEMS resonant persistence - would be that if a
certain periodic energy input is intense but infrequent, then it may
have a corresponding slow-resonant-decay, i.e. a very long Boltzmann's
tail due to Casimir interaction, so that if one can sum up the net
resultant secondary energy, i.e. the "area under the curve," it would
exceed the input energy and this would be enhanced by the close spacing
of MEMS devices.
This web site also has three interesting animations,
http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/forkanim.html
"On the sound field radiated by a tuning fork" by Daniel A. Russell
With two tuning forks, when one is resonated, the other will begin to
resonate with the excited one, coming to near the same energy level,
with rather surprising persistence - and in theory a large number of
tuning forks arranged optimally, might show some kind of mutually
resonant energy anomaly, but again, this has not been demonstrated on
either the macro or micro level.
In the case of a tiny rigid cavity or molecular sphere - which is small
enough to intercept ZPE frequencies - that object could function like a
tuning fork or an antenna, absorbing and re-emitting energy in order to
establish local equilibrium. At this level, so-called inelastic
collsions are indeed "lossless" but that is not enough for overunity -
the bulk collision energy must be non-conservative and dependent on
"external" energy (ZPE) . The wave spectrum of particular interest is
the one where phonon-photon resonance is possible. That is to say where
sound and RF share common frequencies.
Especially frequencies associated with the CMB....
Jones
