AAWSAP DIRD, Concepts for Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum, April 2010

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Van der Waals forces.
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Casimir forces.
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Diamagnetism.
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Davies-Unruh Effect.
The strength of the SEO model is that it is heuristically appealing, with transparent
derivations, and it is applicable to linear systems. SEO calculations have also been
shown to be in one-to-one correspondence with the expectation va lues of the
Heisenberg quantum equations of motion for linear systems. Both SED and QED will
play a role in the discussions to follow.
IV. Review of Selected Experiments
In what follows, is an outline each of the proposed experimental concepts that were
selected for theoretical and laboratory investigation. A subset of our proposed concepts
has undergone preliminary evaluation by Lockheed-Martin review panels involving both
internal R&D personnel and outside experts on theory and experimentation (V. Teofila,
private communication, 2005).
VOLTAGE FLUCTUATIONS IN COILS INDUCED BY ZPF AT HIGH
FREQUENCY
In a series of experiments, Koch et al. (Reference 18-20) measured voltage fluctuations
in resistive wire circuits that are induced by the ZPF. The Koch et al. result is striking
corroboration of the reality of the ZPF and proves that the ZPF can do real work (cause
measurable currents). Although the Koch et al. experiment detected minuscule
amounts of ZPF energy, it shows the principle of ZPF energy circuitry to detect vacuum
fluctuations and opens the door to consideration of means to extract useful amounts of
energy. The secondary consequences on other phenomena, if energy can be
successfully extracted, have not yet been investigated.
Blanco et al. (Reference 21) have proposed a method for enhancing the ZPF-induced
voltage fluctuations in circuits. Theoretically treating a coil of wire as an antenna, they
argue that the antenna-like radiation resistance of the coil should be included in the
total resistance of the circuit, and suggest that this total resistance should be used in
the theoretical computation of ZPF-induced voltage fluctuations. Because of the strong
dependence of the radiation resistance on the number of coil turns (quadratic scaling),
coil radius (quartic scaling), and frequency (quartic scaling), any enhanced ZPF-induced
voltage fluctuations should be measurable in the laboratory at readily accessible
frequencies (100 MHz compared to the 100 GHz range necessary in the Koch et al.
experiments).
In the theory of Blanco et al., random voltage fluctuations are conveniently described
by their frequency spectrum. That is, given a sufficient time interval of measured
voltages, the measurements are Fourier transformed to the frequency domain to
determine how the voltage fluctuations are distributed (for example, quantity of low­
frequency, long duration fluctuations relative to high-frequency, short-duration
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