The Spacetime Metric

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Haisch and Moddel’s 2008 patent proposes extracting energy by repeatedly moving gas through Casimir cavities, tiny regions that restrict the electromagnetic waves they can support. In the proposed cycle, atoms release energy as they enter a cavity and regain it from the surrounding vacuum field after leaving. The designs collect the released radiation as heat and use flowing gas, vibrating gas, or changing cavity walls to repeat the cycle. The mechanism assumes a balance between electron radiation and absorption from the vacuum; its extension beyond hydrogen is not theoretically established in the patent. An asymmetric design adds an absorbing layer near the entrance but not the exit, aiming to collect energy locally while replenishing it from the wider surroundings.

Quantum vacuum energy extraction

  1. Bernard Haisch(Author)
  2. Garret Moddel(Author)

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patent
Year
2008
Publisher
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Edition
US7379286B2, granted 27 May 2008; application publication US20070241470A1 is a separate edition
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Original title
Quantum vacuum energy extraction
Attribution
  1. Bernard Haisch(Author)
  2. Garret Moddel(Author)
Year
2008
Publisher
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Edition
US7379286B2, granted 27 May 2008; application publication US20070241470A1 is a separate edition
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Original source links

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