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Unless, you really have some real electronics experience, you won't see
the facts involved with the following devices actually being Zero Point
Energy Devices. But, the truth, as we search for the unknown, old
school, really beat us to the punch.
First, look at the wiring diagram/schematic for a Wimshurst
Electrostatic Generator:
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/wims.gif
Electrostatic "generators" are transducers; they use input mechanical
work to separate electrical charges. If no work is input, no charges
get separated. Let it run down, and they recombine through leakage.
No connection with zero-point energy.
You want "zero-point _field_" energy, which is different.
Find a copy of "Analysis of zero-point electromagnetic energy and
Casimir forces
in conducting rectangular cavities" by G. Gordon Maclay (Physical
Review A, Volume 61, 052110) and read it. You can download it online
but it'll cost money; any University should have a library that carries
Phys. Rev. in dead tree format you can read and copy for much less if
not for free.
If you can't follow all the math, just look carefully at figs. 16
&17.
The point is that the usual cited embodiment of the Casimir Effect,
two close-spaced conducting plates, is a special case of the general
idea of bounding a volume of space so as to exclude EM modes that won't
fit within, giving the enclosed volume a negative energy density
compared to an equal but unbounded volume. Another special case is
cuboidal cavities, which neatly get rid of the edge effects of the
(assumed) infinite conducting planes of the usual version.
Specifically, the figures explain that two identical enclosed
volumes, one pizza-box shaped, the other hatbox-shaped, will have
_different_ negative energy densities, thus different absolute energy
values at the contained wavelengths. So, a thought experiment; consider
them as ordinary RF cavity resonators, poke holes in them, and insert
conductors so as to link the field lines of one or more of the
contained modes. then connect the wires through a resistive load;
obviously, power will flow through the load.
There are a few minor engineering impediments to realizing this idea
in hardware; the Casimir Effect works best with close spacing, hence
the cavities will be rather small. You won't get much power per pair,
so you need to series/parallel many. Also it works better the better
the walls conduct, so you want superconductors. Also, the size of the
cavities means you'll be working at really short wavelengths where
rectifiers are hard to come by.
So, if you have access to, or know someone who has access to
equipment for making semiconductor-gate-scale RF hardware out of
superconductors, you're in business.
Let us know how it works out.
Mark Fergerson
