An Energy Alternative: Free Energy
There has been much debate about what is often
called “free” energy—energy that can supposedly, with the right
technology, be drawn straight out of the atmosphere, and in very
abundant supply. The debates are about whether the stuff actually exists
or not, what it would actually cost were it to be harnessed, and if it
does exist is it truly as abundant and efficient as it's being made out
to be by proponents of research and development into this potential
alternative energy source.
When one hears the phrase “free energy device”, one might be hearing
about one of several different concepts. This might mean a device for
collecting and transmitting energy from some source that orthodox
science does not recognize; a device which collects energy at absolutely
no cost; or an example of the legendary perpetual motion machine.
Needless to say, a perpetual motion machine—a machine which drives
itself, forever, once turned on, therefore needing no energy input ever
again and never running out of energy—is impossible. However, it is not
so simple to say that a new technology for harnessing the energy
“floating” in the atmosphere is impossible. New technologies replace old
ones all the time with abilities that had just been “impossible”.
Harnessing the power of the atom for providing huge amounts of energy
was “impossible” until the 1940s. Flying human beings were an
“impossible” thing until the turn of the 20th century and the Wright
Brothers' flight.
The biggest claim of the proponents of “free” energy is that enormous
amounts of energy can be drawn from the Zero Point Field. This is a
quantum mechanical state of matter for a defined system which is
attained when the system is at the lowest possible energy state that it
can be in. This is called the “ground state” of the system. Zero Point
Energy (ZPE) is sometimes referred to as “residual” energy and it was
first proposed to be usable as an alternative form of energy way back in
1913 by Otto Stern and Albert Einstein. It is also referred to as
“vacuum energy” in studies of quantum mechanics, and it is supposed to
represent the energy of totally empty space. This energy field within
the vacuum has been likened to the froth at the base of a waterfall by
one of the principal researchers into and proponents of Hal Puthof.
Puthof also explains, the term 'zero-point' simply means that if the
universe were cooled down to absolute zero where all thermal agitation
effects would be frozen out, this energy would still remain. What is not
as well known, however, even among practicing physicists, are all the
implications that derive from this known aspect o quantum physics.
However, there are a group of physicists—myself and colleagues at
several research labs and universities—who are examining the details, we
ask such questions as whether it might be possible to 'mine' this
reservoir of energy for use as an alternative energy source, or whether
this background energy field might be responsible for inertia and
gravity.
These questions are of interest because it is known that this energy can
be manipulated, and therefore there is the possibility that the control
of this energy, and possibly inertia and gravity, might yield to
engineering solutions. Some progress has been made in a subcategory of
this field (cavity quantum electrodynamics) with regard to controlling
the emission rates of excited atoms and molecules, of interest in laser
research and elsewhere.
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