Horace
> Ah yes, it's that sometimes delusional pre-experiment glow I must be
feeling!
Problem is - I don't see this working more robustly than the old
Clarendon dry pile without getting down to "nano" tolerances, and
possibly to exotic materials.
This puts thorough experimentation beyond all but the most advanced
labs. Even Intel is perhaps 5-6 years away from executing features in
mass production where the Casimir force comes into play - if that were
necessary. It may or may not be required, but the gap must be incredibly
close for this to work well.
There are dozens of labs that could do it correctly and exhaustively for
a prototype, with the financial motivation, but would the do it on
speculation?
Otherwise, all any one experimenter could add to the "dry pile theme"
would be (if one were a very good electroplater with lots and lots of
plating chemicals) an optimized donor/acceptor/tranfer medium combination.
OTOH - think about the value to Apple/Dell/HP/etc. of a better-battery
option for the laptop which was an order of magnitude superior to the
lithium ion .... not to mention Sony, which recently took a $200 million
bath (at least) on lithium ion battery failures.
Jones
