Casimir Effect produced in lab

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 11:58 pm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 133050.htm

Hmm, wonder how that affects zero point energy and other speculative devices that make use of this.
Either way, this is certainly interesting.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:19 am

Other experiments in past years have discovered other aspects of the effect. The energy manifests. But it is quite close to the noise level.

choff · Post by **choff** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:34 am

It would be interesting if photons could arise by this or other means in empty space,(other than adjacent to a black hole).

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:06 pm

I have a fuzzy memory of reading about some experiment where the Casimir effect was used to extract energy, as aluminum foil sheets merged into a solid block of aluminum. Or maybe it was in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, not sure anymore.

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 6:38 pm

I think there are some people trying to make this work...
It would require a type of nano manufacturing that we currently cant do on a large enough scale, from what I understand.

D Tibbets · Post by **D Tibbets** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:30 pm

A similar discussion is located here:

viewtopic.php?t=3103&highlight=chasmere+effect+power

D Tibbets

Betruger · Post by **Betruger** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:07 am

Cashmere effect, huh?

Creating money from an empty credit card substrate maybe?

quixote · Post by **quixote** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:22 am

DeltaV wrote:I have a fuzzy memory of reading about some experiment where the Casimir effect was used to extract energy, as aluminum foil sheets merged into a solid block of aluminum. Or maybe it was in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, not sure anymore.

I am not sure about the aluminum, but you could be thinking of Jovion's device. The idea is to use standard lithography techniques to create sheets with microscopic channels in them and then stack the sheets to form a cube. I believe it's been discussed on this forum repeatedly.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/02/jovion ... -zero.html

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:46 pm

That's similar, but I think I might have read about it in a Dr. R. Forward science fact article in Analog, decades ago. Maybe I'm confusing it with another article.