In regard to the contents of: http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CasimirGenerator.pdf
the lateral Casimir force between a square plate edge and an adjecent parallel plate is not the same as for a beveled plate edge and opposing plate, and thus a net energy gain is feasible from a Casimir effect motor, provided the edges of the plates are appropriately shaped. I showed, by comparative analysis, that the lateral Casimir force due to forces between a square plate edge and an adjecent parallel plate is not the same as for a beveled plate edge and opposing plate, and thus a net energy gain is feasible from a Casimir effect motor provided the edges of the plates are appropriately shaped. It is thus feasible to build a motor rotor consisting merely of a parallelogram shaped lobes, and stator which is merely a flat surface near which the rotor rotates. The gap between stator and rotor have to be very small.
It might of use to make the stator a surface with non-symmetrical cross section grooves or fairly closely spaced parallelogram cross section "blades". Call this the activator surface. Such a surface could be relatively large in area. Then the rotor or armature need only provide a closely mated smooth surface at a very small distance from the stator. The activator surface could be planar, or cylindrical, or conical, etc., with the *rotor* (armature) shaped to mate surfaces.
It is easier to build oscillating arm (pendulum) MicroEletroMechanical system (MEMS) devices than similar devices with rotors because it eliminates the need for bearings, and the construction can be achieved using existing electronic chip making technology. A linear motion armature pendulum could be activated by changing the distance between the stator and armature in one direction, the y direction, in order to initiate free energy motion in the other. An x axis moving armature (drone plate) sandwiched between two physically connected activator (drive) plates that move together in the y axis, one growing closer to the armature as the other recedes, each activator plate with groove shapes oriented to cause forces on the armature (drone plate) in a direction opposed to the other activator plate, would cause the armature to oscillate in the x direction, with net energy gained from each oscillation. Since the y axis force times distance curves integrate to the same energy value of zero, no net energy is required to drive the activator plate pendulums, other than heating due to friction and torsion. The physical linkage of opposed driver plates reduces the electrical energy required to drive them. Electrical energy can be extracted from the induced x axis linear armature motion by having it change the separation between charged capacitor plates, or by having a connected dielectric material move in and out of the volume between two charged capacitor plates, i.e. by driving an electrostatic AC generator. Similarly, some of the generated energy could be fed back to capacitively drive the motion of the activator plates.
There is a potentially practical means to derive macro levels of energy from an array of MEMS devices similar to those described above. This practical means is to use capacitive linkages to drive the y axis oscillations of all the paired driver plate pendulums so as to synchronously drive all the pendulum oscillations in a large array. This synchronous action of all the pendulums then will cause a macro level vibration in the array which can be used to obtain macro levels of free kinetic energy. Such energy might be converted to electrical energy by driving piezoelectric crystals connected to a very large array. Electrical energy so obtained can then be fed back to the oscillator driving the driver plate pendulums. Alternatively, the synchronously oscillating drone places could drive capacitive generators to produce a synchronous current output. Elements of the array could be joined in series and parallel to obtain useful power levels. The power output of such a MEMS array would be radio frequency.
Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
