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UNCLASSIFIED / / F@?=-@FFtGEA-UGE-ONS Concepts for Extracting Energy From the Quantum Vacuum Prepared by: (b)(3):10 USC 424 Defense Intelligence Agency Author: (b)(6) Administrative Note COPYRIGHT WARNING: Further dissemination of the photographs in this publication is not authorized. This product is one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Defense Intelligence Agency, [(b)(3):10 USC 424 Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. Comments or questions pertaining to this document should be addressed to |(b)(3):10 USC 424;(b)(6) AAWSA Progr…

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UNCLASSIFIED / /#@R-@FF66hh=6E-ONEe= Concepts for Extracting Energy From the Quantum Vacuum I. Summary Quantum theory predicts that the vacuum of space throughout the universe is filled with electromagnetic waves, random in phase and amplitude, propagating in all possible directions, and with a cubic frequency distribution. This differs from the cosmic microwave background radiation and is referred to as the electromagnetic quantum vacuum, which is the lowest energy state of otherwise empty space. When integrated over all frequency modes up to the Planck frequency, vp (~ 10% Hertz [Hz]), it re…

UNCLASSIFIED / /POROPFTCREwst ott « Low-temperature van der Waals forces. - Casimir effect. « Source of photon shot and fluctuating radiation-pressure noise in lasers. - Astronomically observed cosmological constant (aka dark energy, a form of Casimir energy according to the Schwinger-DeWitt quantum ether prescription [Reference 1-4]). — Rather than eliminate the ZPF energy from the equations, there is much left to be learned by exploring the possibility that it is a real energy. From this perspective, the ordinary world of matter and energy is like foam atop the quantum vacuum sea. If the ZPF…

UNCLASSIFIED / / F6R-@FFtG>H=-SOntt"—” II. Historical Concepts for Extracting Energy and Thermodynamic Considerations The Casimir force is a force associated with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum (Reference 5). This force is an attraction between parallel uncharged metallic plates that has now been well measured and can be attributed to a minute imbalance in the ZPF energy (ZPE) density inside the cavity between the plates versus the region outside the plates as shown in Figure 1 (Reference 6-8). As shown in the figure, the vacuum is full of virtual photons (that is, zero-point vacuum fluctu…

UNCLASSIFIED / /b@2.OFEIGEl UGE OEY irreversible processes, heat can be produced and made to flow, either at 7 = 0 or at any other 7 > O situation, such as by taking a system out of mechanical equilibrium. Moreover, work can be done by or done on physical systems, either at 7 = 0 or T > 0 situations, whether for a reversible or irreversible process. However, if one is considering a net cyclical process on the basis of, say, the Casimir effect, then energy would not be able to be continually extracted without a violation of the second law of thermodynamics. Thus, Forward’s process cannot be cyc…