John Company

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

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Contents
I. Summary .............................................................................................................v
II. Historical Concepts for Extracting Energy and Thermodynamic Considerations 1
III. Origin of Zero-Point Field Energy..................................................................... 4
Elements of QED Theory ..................................................................................... 4
Elements of SED Theory ..................................................................................... 6
IV. Review of Selected Experiments ....................................................................... 7
Voltage Fluctuations in Coils Induced by ZPF at High Frequency........................ 7
ZPF Energy Extraction by Ground State Energy Reduction ............................... 10
Tunable Casimir Effect ..................................................................................... 14
EV Phenomenon ............................................................................................... 17
V. Theoretical Considerations and Issues ............................................................. 22
QED Vacuum Revisited ..................................................................................... 22
QED Vacuum as a Plenum............................................................................. 22
QED Vacuum as a Mathematical "Placeholder" for Fluctuating Matter Fields 23
Casimir Effect Revisited ................................................................................... 24
Casimir Effect in the Plenum Picture ............................................................ 24
Casimir Effect in the Fluctuating Matter Fields Picture ................................. 24
Type I (Transient) and Type II (Continuous) Machines.................................... 25
Degradability of the Vacuum ............................................................................ 25
Alternatives to QED .......................................................................................... 26
Neoclassical Theories of QED Vacuum Fluctuation Effects ............................ 26
SED Model Revisited ..................................................................................... 27
QED Without Second-Quantized Fields ......................................................... 28
Examples of Degradable of Decaying Vacuum .................................................. 28
Gravitational Squeezing of the Vacuum ........................................................ 29
Redshifting the Vacuum ............................................................................... 29
Vacuum Field Stress: Negative Vacuum Energy from the Casimir Effect ...... 30
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