On Mar 19, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Roarty, Francis X wrote:
Assessment of proposed electromagnetic quantum vacuum energy
extraction methods (Dated 30 October 2009)
http://www.calphysics.org/articles/Moddel_VacExtrac.pdf
Initially, an apparent exercise in circular reasoning: "Pinto’s
approach cannot work if the Casimir force is conservative. If so, no
matter what process were used to separate the plates, it would
require at least as much energy as had been extracted by their coming
together. ... One might ask if it is possible to use ZPE to do the
work on the Casimir plates necessary to reduce the attractive force
or to convert it to a repulsive force. In this way, could a
continuous cycle provide power? If such a ZPE-powered process were
developed, net power could be extracted. However, the power would
then be coming from the process that modified the Casimir plates
rather than from cycling the spacing of the Casimir cavity plates."
If my aunt were a man she couldn't be my uncle, because uncles are
male. But, if my uncle had a sex change he could be my aunt, which
would mean she, my aunt, then would be my uncle.
If power can be extracted from the Casimir force then it the Casimir
force is not conservative.
The author then goes on to solidify a sensible viewpoint in my
opinion: "Our apparent lack of success in extracting energy from the
vacuum thus far leads to two possible conclusions. Either fundamental
constraints beyond what have been discussed here and the nature of
ZPE preclude extraction, or it is feasible and we just need to find a
suitable technology."
If we can find the right surgeon then perhaps we can do the necessary
job to convert my aunt into an uncle-aunt.
While this is really a neat and understandable article, it does not
address a multi-dimensional approach to Casimir force extraction:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CasimirGenerator.pdf
the potential for inertial drives:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ZPE-CasimirThrust.pdf
nor does it address the environment where the available vacuum energy
is largest and thus practical extraction can most likely be
accomplished, namely the nucleus:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/NuclearZPEtapping.pdf
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
