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

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of ls, 2s, 3s, and 4s electrons. Xe (Z = 54, r = 2.05 A) has two of each of ls, 2s, 3s,
4s and 5s electrons. Larger Casimir cavities would also be expected to have an effect on
the energetics of the outer electron shells (at larger radii). One could therefore expect
that a Casimir cavity having d = 0.1 µm could have an effect on reducing the energy
levels of the outermost pair of s electrons, and possibly also p electrons and
intermediate shell s electrons as well.
Continuing with this model, it is reasonable to expect that a 0.1 µm Casimir cavity could
result in a release of 1 to 10 eV for each injection of a He, Ne, Ar, Kr or Xe atom into
such a cavity. According to Maclay (Reference 26), a long cylindrical Casimir cavity
results in an inward force on the cavity walls due to the exclusion of interior ZPF
modes. In the "exclusion of modes" interpretation of the Casimir force, this implies that
a cylindrical cavity of diameter 0.1 µm could yield the desired decay of outer shell
electrons and subsequent release of energy. If one lets the length of the cylinder be
100 times the width, this results in "A. = 10 µm for the length of the Casimir tunnel.
Taking advantage of this effect, Puthoff (private communication, 2004) and Haisch and
Moddel (Reference 27) propose a segmented tunnel consisting of alternating conducting
and non-conducting materials, each 10 µm in length. In a length of 1 cm, there could
be 500 such pairs in segments, resulting in 500 energy releases (each yielding 1 to 10
eV) for each transit of an atom through the entire 1 cm-long Casimir tunnel.
Now consider a 1 cm 3 block that is built up of 10 ~1m thick alternating layers as
described above (see Figure 6 for an illustration of this apparatus). Assume that tunnels
of 0.1 µm diameter could be drilled through the cube perpendicular to the layers (this is
not physically possible, of course; tunnel manufacture must be done differently). If 10
percent of the cross section comprises entrance to some 1.3 billion tunnels, then the
amount of energy released wou ld be proportional to the flow rate of the gas through
the tunnels (for the number of entrances and exits through Casimir segments). A flow
rate of 10 cm/s through a total cross sectional area of 0.1 cm 2 yields 1 cm 3 of gas per
second flowing through the tunnels, which at STP would be 2.7 x 1019 atoms. A very
simple sealed, closed-loop pumping system could maintain such a continuous gas flow.
Since each atom interacts 500 times during its passage, there would be 1.3 x 1022
transitions per second in the entire cube of 1 cm 3. An energy release of 1 to 10 eV per
transition corresponds to 2,150 to 21,500 W of power released from the entire Casimir
cube of tunnels. This can also be achieved by using a pair of plates with conducting
strips creating Casimir cavities (via 5000 strip pairs) that are separated by 0.1 µm
spacers, through which Hg liquid or monatomic gases (for example, He, Ne, Ar, Kr, or
Xe) flow (Reference 27). See Figure 7 for an illustration of this apparatus. However,
again, all of this assumes that the chain of conjectures detailed above is correct.
Fortunately, this can be experimentally tested.
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