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

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fields, including astrophysics and elementary particle physics. Clever
experimental approaches should be developed to explore the adiabatic Casimir
effect.
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There are numerous potential ways in which the ground state of the vacuum
electromagnetic field might be engineered for use in MEMS and NEMS applications.
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Dirac vacuum decay via external (non-critical) magnetic fields requires further
evaluation, and it should become possible to experimentally test this in the
laboratory within two to five years.
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Theoretical and laboratory studies of the dual QCD vacuum have been underway for
over 20 years. The progress in experimental particle physics is such that one gains
an order of magnitude in the resolution (that is, energy) of elementary particle
structures roughly every decade. It is hoped that the commissioning of the Large
Hadron Collider will lead to higher resolution probing of the dual QCD vacuum
structure, and help to determine whether there are deeper grand unified and/or
Higgs vacuum structures residing within quarks. Future accelerator experiments
should be designed to explore Rafelski and Muller's and Gogohia's proposal to
extract energy from the "melted" QCD vacuum.
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank colleagues H. E. Puthoff (EarthTech, Int'I), V. Teofila
(Lockheed Martin), B. Haisch (ManyOne Networks), L. J. Nickisch (Northwest Research
Assoc.), A. Rueda {California State University-Long Beach), D. C. Cole (Boston
University), M. !bison (Inst. for Advanced Studies at Austin), S. Little (EarthTech Int'I),
and M. Little (EarthTech Int'I), for their technical contributions to this report. We also
thank J. Newmeyer (Lockheed Martin), E. H. Allen (Lockheed Martin), T. W. Kephart
(Vanderbilt Univ.), and P. C. W. Davies (Arizona State Univ.) for their very useful input.
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