Jovion Corporation Gets Patent for Zero Point Energy Extraction, page 1

Just a correction regarding an earlier post of mine....
It isn't nanometres apart that the Casimir plates are installed
but in the 10 micron range....I suspect that the energy extraction
effect might be improved if the plates were close enough together
so that Van Der Waals forces came into play to cause an increase
in the repulsion and attraction of the individual gas molecules
on a cyclical basis. (i.e. a pulsing effect much like squeezing
a foam ball and suddenly releasing it so that it suddenly
restores itself to it's original size but doing it million of
times a second!)

en.wikipedia.org...

Using an analogy, the Casimir plates could be used in a manner
that is similar to the operation of electrostatic speakers or ribbon
microphones so that energy cells can cause radiative energy
such as photons or infra-red (heat) to vibrate the walls
as the gas moves through the plates thus turning them
into nano-transducers which could (MIGHT) directly
create an electrical current.

I suspect that this is what the company is intending to happen
within their energy cells but I personally think the plates have
to be closer together than 10 microns in order to take full
advantage of the effects they have described.

The electron orbits of the gas molecules as they are FORCED
to move in-between the Casimir plates are compressed into a
smaller volume and taking advantage of another law of physics,
that there will be an eventual equal and opposite reaction to
such compresssion, will cause a release of energy such as
possibly photons or heat which can then be absorbed
by another medium or device such as a heat-exchanger or
photo-cell (i.e. mini solar cell).

Like I said earlier, the device will PROBABLY WORK with
some tweaks and I have begun a program of reading
some physics textbooks and examination of other devices
that purport to use the Casimir effect or Van Der Waals forces.
I simply DO NOT KNOW how the shape or size of the cavities
they describe will EXTRACT energy from the ZERO-point ether,
since I think this device may use energy creation based upon
more well-known effects rather than interactions with zero-point
energy vacuums. (i.e. use of inherent gas molecule
attraction/repulsion via Van der Waals forces for the
production of radiative energy)

I am also studying some lectures from years ago which I still
have somewhere in my archives which may highlight the
base-level how and why of a working physics model of this
device. I hate building something if don't understand
HOW or WHY it works, so I will continue my reading for the
next few weeks while trying some general Autocad/Maya3D
tinkering to see if a working version could be built to confirm
either way whether this device could work.

The key here is to do ALL the work on the computer FIRST
(i.e. CAD/CAM/Finite Element Analysis) before committing
a design to CNC-based manufactured hardware.

It saves money and time in the long run to model the device
on a computer first rather than keep trying to build and tweak
a "Real-World" version of the device over and over again!

So I'll keep you all posted on development BUT don't expect
anything for 6 to 8 weeks which will be a general CAD design.
For a physical working model I'll make a general GUESS at
5 to 6 months (i.e. July/August 2009)

So subscribe to the thread and keep looking here for updates
on this fun-to-do, after-hours project about every 7 to 14 days
or so. (this is in addition to my UAV project! - Could be fun!)

Hope this helps.