On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Alain dit le Cycliste <[email protected]> wrote: > many talking of zero point energy seems not to really understand what it is > really. by definition, you cannot use energy from it.
What did you mean when you wrote "by definition, you can't use zero-point energy"? >From http://www.calphysics.org/zpe.html : > Zero-point energy is not a thermal reservoir, and therefore does not > suffer from the thermodynamic injunction against extracting energy > from a lower temperature reservoir. > In 1993 Cole and Puthoff published a thermodynamic analysis, > ''Extracting energy and heat from the vacuum'' (see below), in which > they concluded that ''extracting energy and heat from > electromagnetic zero-point radiation via the use of the Casimir > force'' is in principle possible without violating the laws of > thermodynamics. -- Berke Durak
