One of the most provocative and insightful researchers in alternative energy is Thomas Prevenslik.
Like many of us, he did not pick up on the plasmon connection to Casimir/ZPE/superradiance until fairly recently. I am not sure if he has yet framed the Rossi HotCat into this same category, but I suspect that he will sooner or later. The last 10 years has been the plasmon decade - in a way. Here is an old paper - not that 2004 is that old - about what the plasmon anomaly really is, but since it never mentions the word "plasmon" it is of interest in understanding the phenomenon from an earlier time frame. http://www.asian-energy-journal.info/Abstract/Blackbody%20radiation%20in%20m icroscopic%20gaps.pdf Blackbody Radiation in Microscopic Gaps T. V. Prevenslik Abstract: Planck's derivation of the radiation law for blackbody (BB) radiation that included the zero point energy (ZPE) was based on an oscillator in thermal equilibrium exchanging discrete quanta of energy linear with frequency. Einstein - Hopf classical theory for a free particle led to the Rayleigh-Jeans law absent the zero point energy. Boyer using classical theory extended Einstein and Hopf's notion of a free particle to include the interaction with the cavity wall to derive Planck's radiation law including the zero point energy. But in microscopic gaps having dimensions less than half the wavelength of the characteristic BB radiation, say in the far infrared (IR), none of prior derivations is valid. To explain why microscopic gaps enhance radiant heat transfer, a new theory of radiative heat transfer based on cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) is proposed.
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