AAWSAP DIRD, Concepts for Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum, April 2010
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UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFI@IAL WSE QptLY 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 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIO! Pili QIU.,¥ iii