Hmmm, suppose you have an accordion device that you drop into the ocean with a rock. The device pressurizes air as it sinks and locks into place, then you drop the ballast and it floats to the top. You use the pressurized air to do work. Is possible? If so, is it OU?
Terry On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Chris Zell <[email protected]> wrote: > Everytime the subject of zero point energy comes up, I wanna ask, where's > the 'drain', the 'cold side', the 'pressure release'? > > At the bottom of the ocean, you have tons of pressure per square inch but > what good is that? You need an area of reduced pressure to get a flow > going. Likewise, hot to cold and uphill to downhill. If zero point energy > is squishing everything everywhere, what good is it and furthermore, how can > it be measured? Relative to what hole in the cosmic vacuum? > > I suppose the Casimir force is suggestive (like a bubble underwater > relative to surrounding pressure) but how can a continuous action be > created? > >
