Horrace,
I don't disagree with your assessment and it is no surprise the
Professor finds his own patented method the only likely candidate but there
are 2 things I gained from section C of his paper.
First I finally understand the term Haisch coined "Casimir -Lamb shift"
which they claim is different from the method employed by Mills. Moddel
depicts both Lamb shift and Casimir effect as based on differences in
vacuum energy
Where "The electromagnetic quantum vacuum can be altered in a much more
significant way in a Casimir cavity." I don't see much difference in this
Casimir Lamb- shift and what vorticians call f/h but I will give him that
there is presently no connection between Casimir effect and catalytic action
so my comparison between the Mills' and Moddel method remains speculative.
The 2nd thing I noticed is that he makes a very similar case to
my speculations without any relativistic baggage. He uses Larmor radiation ,
energy and known scince regarding vacuum fluctuations and boundaries.
To account for their process. The only real disagreement I maintain is that
the hydrogen translation will be symmetrical into and out of the cavity
unless they do some chemistry to make it asymmetrical. My next blog
Will be written citing his paper and terminology - I think I can put my
argument together without any reference to Naudts or Bourgoin to produce at
least 1 non fringe blog.
Regards
Fran
[quote from section C of Moddel paper]
1. Zero-point energy ground state and Casimir cavities
There is a fundamental difference between the equilibrium state for heat and
for ZPE. It
is well understood that one cannot make use of thermal fluctuations under
equilibrium
conditions. To use the heat, there must be a temperature difference to
promote a heat flow to
obtain work, as reflected in the Carnot efficiency of Eq. (4). We cannot
maintain a permanent
temperature difference between a hot source and a cold sink in thermal
contact with each other
without expending energy, of course.
Similarly, without differences in some characteristic of ZPE in one region
as compared to
another it is difficult to understand what could drive ZPE flow to allow its
extraction. If the ZPE
represented the universal ground state, we could not make use of ZPE
differences to do work.
But the entropy and energy of ZPE are geometry dependent.32 "The vacuum
state does not have
a fixed energy value, but changes with boundary conditions."33 In this way
ZPE fluctuations
differ fundamentally from thermal fluctuations. Inside a Casimir cavity the
ZPF density is
different than outside. This is a constant difference that is established as
a result of the different
boundary conditions inside and out. A particular state of thermal or
chemical equilibrium can be
10
characterized by a temperature or chemical potential, respectively. For an
ideal Casimir cavity
having perfectly reflecting surfaces it is possible to define a
characteristic temperature that
describes the state of equilibrium for zero-point energy and which depends
only on cavity
spacing.31 In a real system, however, no such parameter exists because the
state is determined by
boundary conditions in addition to cavity spacing,34 such as the cavity
reflectivity as a function
of wavelength, spacing uniformity, and general shape.
The next approach to extracting power from vacuum fluctuations makes use of
the step in
the ZPE ground state at the entrance to Casimir cavities.
According to stochastic electrodynamics (SED), the energy of classical
electron orbits in
atoms is determined by a balance of emission and absorption of vacuum
energy.35 By this view
of the atom, electrons emit a continuous stream of Larmor radiation as a
result of the acceleration
they experience in their orbits. As the electrons release energy their
orbits would spin down were
it not for absorption of vacuum energy from the ZPF. This balancing of
emission and absorption
has been modeled and shown to yield the correct Bohr radius in hydrogen.36
Accordingly, the
orbital energies of atoms inside Casimir cavities should be shifted if the
cavity spacing blocks
the ZPF required to support a particular atomic orbital.
A suitable term for this is the "Casimir-Lamb shift". The energy levels of
electron
orbitals in atoms are determined by sets of quantum numbers. However the
electromagnetic
quantum vacuum can change these energies, as exhibited in the well known
Lamb shift. In the
case of the Lamb shift the nucleus of the atom (a single proton for
hydrogen) slightly modifies
the quantum vacuum in its vicinity. The result is that the 2P1/2 and 2S1/2
orbitals, which should
have the same energy, are slightly shifted since they spread over slightly
different distances from
the nucleus, and hence experience a slightly different electromagnetic
quantum vacuum. The
electromagnetic quantum vacuum can be altered in a much more significant way
in a Casimir
cavity. Hence the term, Casimir-Lamb shift.
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Re: [Vo]:Moddel paper on energy extraction
Horace Heffner
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:12:04 -0700
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/
