Has Tom Bearden produced energy from the zero point?.?
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His system is a total hoax. But one hoax does not rule out ZPE all together. \n\nIn a quantum mechanical system such as the particle in a box or the quantum harmonic oscillator, the lowest possible energy is called the zero-point energy. According to classical physics, the kinetic energy of a particle in a box or the kinetic energy of the harmonic oscillator may be zero if the velocity is zero. Quantum mechanics with its uncertainty principle implies that if the velocity is measured with certainty to be exactly zero, the uncertainty of the position must be infinite. This either violates the condition that the particle remains in the box, or it brings a new potential energy in the case of the harmonic oscillator. To avoid this paradox, quantum mechanics dictates that the minimal velocity is never equal to zero, and hence the minimal energy is never equal to zero.\n\nBut if Zero-point energy refers to quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic force fields that are present everywhere in a vacuum. That's energy in a Vacuum? Free Energy! Whoo Hoo! Right? Well obviously this hasn't happened. When I originally put together a Zero Point Energy page for this site, ZPE's promise to be a viable source of power was unclear at best. More recent knowledge in the area makes it clear that although ZPE does exist (maybe) it's probably not the kind of thing your going to power a car with let alone a StarGate. Current research points to the total amount of ZPE that is harnesable being very low, perhaps being zero. The rest of ZPE in the universe is by it's very definition not something you can tap into. If you are looking for more detail, there is a fairly readable page on the subject over at the Scientific American web site.  This is not to say that very very small amounts of power aren't just the thing in certain applications. Quantum Fields LLC is doing research toward using ZPE to power microscopic electro mechanical systems. So the field isn't dead yet, just don't expect to replace you car engine with a magic ZPE engine. So here a thing they are working on over at Quantum Fields, they call it a MEMS oscillator. No clue what it is or even if they have built a real one or not, but there you go...
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Kari Byron mentioned they tried the free-energy myth in one show, but i don't remember seeing that one. i need to be on that show when they revisit that myth, it will be great fun for me to confirm it for them!
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The Laws of Thermodynamics does not preclude the possibility of reaching absolute ZERO, even though it is practically extremely difficult to reach.\n\nHowever, it is physically IMPOSSIBLE to reach absolute ZERO for another reason: Quantum Jitters.\n\nAt the subatomic level, no particle will stay absolutely motionless. At very short time and spatial scales, there are huge fluctuations consisting of particle-antiparticle pairs with arbitrary amounts of energy. Even space and time itself are fluctuating. This means you can NEVER achieve absolute zero.\n\nThis quantum jitter is due to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, but even beyond that there is what is called "vaccum energy", meaning that even in empty space devoid of any matter or energy, there is still a minimal level of energy contained in space itself.
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did someone sleep in science class or do they not teach the laws of thermodynamics anymore, one of them states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. pick up a science book and read it some time.
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zero-point energy is one of the most widely misunderstood concepts of quantum mechanics.  all it says is that space has fluctuations of non-zero energy at a temperature of absolute zero.  the casimir force, which is a measurable effect, can be modeled as a consequence of zero-point energy, but it's essentially the same thing as the van der waals interaction - also a consequence of quantum fluctuations.  \n\nthese fluctuations do physically exist but are not 'harnessable' any more than the random thermal fluctuations of matter at non-zero temperature.  at least, the 2nd law of thermodynamics says it is so - any technology that did such a thing would overturn hundreds of years of evidence for the validity of the 2nd law.  i for one am not holding my breath.\n\ndon't let the crackpots confuse you with their nonsense.
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Don't listen to the first answer, he didn't even bother to look it up.\n\nThe second law of thermodynamics is more about the direction of energy flow.  It is really a statement about the 1st law and how many of it's processes never take place.\n\nFrom it, you get things like "Heat will not flow spontaneously from a colder body into a warmer body." And "Heat energy can not be compleaely transformed into mechanical work." Also, "It is impossible to construct an operational perpetual motion machine."\n\nIf evolutionists heads explode over this it is because of the consistant and repeated misuse of this by creationists.  In fact, most of the major creationists now conceede that they have been way off on this for a long time.  It does really make me worry about the education system in this country when creationists still think they can go around saying this.  \n\nOK, one more time: The second law and entropy apply to CLOSED SYSTEMS.  Since you haven't even bothered to research this - news flash! - THE EARTH IS NOT A CLOSED SYSTEM.  This may be new to some creationists but their is a big ball of fire out there called the sun where the earth gets most of it's energy.  Living things use energy from lower trophic levels to assemble new molecules.\n\nEvery time one of these creationist think that this is a valid argument, how come they never wonder why their aren't a bunch of physicits pointing this out to biologists?
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notice how no one has answered...\n\nthat means there is no legitimate info to back up a viewpoint that involves wasting energy (notice how i've omitted "conservative" because that would mean they would "conserve" something!)
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Linmar--i want to propose MY personal theory, which cannot be scientifically proven in any publication to date.  I had a vision one evening after watching a show about spontaneous combustion victims.  One victim was a middle-aged man with a stump for an arm.  He described the event as a mild tingling with no pain, and much to his dismay, his hand and most of his forearm turned to ash.  \n\nUsing his experience, this isn't about fat burning, or too much oxygen, or even about oxidation as we know it.  The material in our bodies has stored chemical potential energy.  We have internal heat generation which keeps our bodies warm.  It is like a clock spring slowly unwinding.\n\nNOW, if you sped up this clock, relative to normal time-space, your energy would dissipate so rapidly, that the object WOULD turn to ash due to the release of heat.  If a human arm dissipates 10 watts every second for the lifetime of the arm, say 70 years, that equals 22*10^9 joules.  THAT"S A LOT OF ENERGY.  Now for instance, if for some reason a time-space continuum intersected with the man, if his arm actually was accidentally inserted into another dimension whose time constant was 100 times our speed, his arm simply aged and died.  All the energy that would have unwound in this time space over the course of 70 years, unwound in minutes or seconds.  If there are time-space defects and other dimensions, it makes sense that entropy may not unwind at the same pace in all spaces.  \n\nIt reminds me that the earth is travelling at thousands of miles per hour through space.  We have no perception of this at all.  But put a cosmic bed post by the earth, and have an impact, BAM!! Bye-bye earth.  I think it is the same thing.  For some unlucky reason, I beleive this particular man had an interdimensional event wherein the potential energy in his arm dissipated very quickly in that other dimension.  \n\nFood for thought--tell me whatchya think.
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In fact, the answer to this question is YES. (Sort of)\n\nHere's why:\nEinstein's famous equation says that e=mc2. In other words, energy and mass are fundamentally linked (by the square of the speed of light, which is a very big number). When you put energy in to a dead battery, that is equivalent to putting in a tiny, tiny, tiny extra amount of mass. I doubt any set of weighing scales on the planet would be able to detect the difference it makes to your average AA however! \n\nFor all practical purposes though, provided your battery is a closed system and airtight, a charged battery has no more or less mass than a discharged one.
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At the sun's deep interior(400,000 miles deep!), heat(20million degrees Fahrenheit) & pressure(4 trillion pounds per square inch) act on  700 million tons of hydrogen, converting it to 695 million tons of helium....per second!!!!!! The excess 5 million tons of hydrogen that isn't turned to helium becomes pure radiant energy according to Einstein's famous equation, E=MCsquared,\nwhere E=energy\nM=mass\nCsquared=(speed of light) times (speed of light)!\n\nYou can understand how much energy is created because the (speed of light)squared= 186, 284miles per second times 5280feet per mile times 186,284miles per second  times 5280feet per mile is a seriously big number. When this number is also multiplied to the large hydrogen mass(5 million tons) converted to energy, the Energy unleashed by the sun is stupifyingly stupendous!!!!!!!   The energy unleashed by the sun is the equivalent (& is the very same type of energy) of  11 billion 1 megaton nuclear(not atomic) weapons exploded per second. You might understand this huge energy amount better if you were to think of a square mile of terrain on the earth exploding 55 nuclear weapons per second.... continually & over every square mile of the entire planet earth!!!!!! Such power is unleashed in the sun but it doesn't hurt us(except when we get sun burns & long term cancers). Great processes work in the sun, in the space & electromagnetic fields around the sun & earth, & in the sun &  earth's atmospheres, not to kill us, but to SUSTAIN life on earth. Wow, wow, wow.............WOW!!!!
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Obviously, don't get that stuff on yourself.  There is also the waste material produced (but all energy production involves waste which is the inefficient use of material in the production of energy).  Finally, remember that no one died at Three Mile Island.
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Build closed circuit pollution free hydroelectric power\nBuild new electric powered roads for electric cars and trucks\n\nmillions of high wage jobs building power plants\nmillions more jobs building new electric powered roads\nthousands of jobs building electric cars and trucks NO batteries needed this way the road has the electricity built in it\n\noverabundant 100% clean electric power 1,000,000 mega watts from a single power plant \n1000 times more power than the largest nuke plant(930 mega watts plant Volgtel in Ga.) more than Fusion!\n\nThis power plant has been all over the gov Clinton, Gore, Newt, Sam Nun, DOE\nClinton said"I'm to busy moving the counrty forward"\nGore said" good luck, I'm glad to see someone else is working on our energy problem"\nNewt "promised his full support" if I sold out to Ga. power .01c on the dollar to invent and patent this\nSam was to busy with armed services\nI have letters from these crumbs saying these things\n\nMason Wiggins of the Science,Space, and Technolgy Subcommitty a guy who knows tech,Newts energy guy said" this appears to be the secret we've been looking for" and took it to friends at the DOE.  DOEmanagement found out this came in the back door and threw out pollution free power. Mailed it back to me in an open enevlope with pages missing.  Said send it to NIST.  NIST said 5 years to get back to the DOE 5 more to decide to fund this; only $40,000 available to any 1 applicant\n\nBush's people do not even return calls or answer emails during energy summit\n\nGa power wanted to buy me out for.01c on the dollar\nSouthern Cal. Edison wanted .01c on the dollar\nPower Industry Consultants said revise your figure to 2% of my investment; they offered the most! 2%?\n\nGa to Cal. all attempts for gov funding got nothing!\n$50,000 in DC trips 1000's of calls and emails\nAll the utility engineers and not a single hole in this to be found ever!\nPatented! made no difference!\n\n400 page tech manual showing how and what size to buld these anywhere; got my patent allowed on the spot after 45 minute phone cal with my patent attorney and patent office examiner because my patent attorney could answer every question examiner put to him from my 400 page tech manual.\n\nOnly utility patent of it's kind ever!\n\nUtilites spend millions to patent even small improvements in existing power plants.\nPatent rights should be worth many times what a small improvement is worth!\n\nA first generation baby plant of 1000 mega watts generates $1billion per year of power in Cal. market\nSecond generation plants can make over 1,000,000 mega watts\nOverabundant 100% clean electric power to end conservation and Arab oil\n.05c per kilo watt electric power super cheap power all the power anything anywhere could ever use\n\nCould export electric power to the world; clean US made electric power\n\nGov wants us poor and working so much we can't get in their hair for being screw ups\n\ndems and reps have all the power so they bear all the blame\nvote! vote for anyone thats not a dem or rep\n\n2 nations and a US state pay not tax thier residents\nKuwait pays $58,000 y no rent, utilities, phone, hospital, income tax, gas is cheap free for motorcycles\nDubia pays\nAlaska pays\nI know it's OIL! Oil is just 1 of thousands of commodities. With all the thousands of commodities in your state why aren't you paid? With all the feds resources why don't they pay 50 times what Alaska pays?\n\npollititions lie, cheat, steal, back stab. corkscrew, dirty deal, murder, run the debt to the moon, raise taxes, int rates, give our money to foreigners that hate us, allow foreign co to cheat us out taxes they owe, send our jobs overseas, waste our money like no tommorrow, on yahoo 1.4 bil in bogus hurricane claims, deny money to renewable energy, MORE??????????
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Fungi?\nWell,if it's everything the article indicates it might be,\nsuch a fuel could be a godsend-especially if it really does cut down greenhouse emissions.I would have to reserve judgement on that until it's confirmed,though,it could be just political hype.Even if it's all true,we should continue exploring other alternatives such as solar energy\nwhich would have no effect at all on the environment.\n Still,this could possibly be the one positive result of Bush's Presidency.
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Its a matter of perspective, right now no. But later on, I'm sure it would be. What we need is a space elevator to make supplies cheap to transport, and we would need many people and robots to construct it. But in the film, it was powered by fusion, so in order to power something that massive, we would need something like that to power it.
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There is no "close." You either have perpetual motion or you don't. Because any device you can come up with will have energy loss due to heat lost by the work done, you can never have a physical device that will keep going without additional energy. There is a theoretical particle that can never go slower than the speed of light, which I guess would be a form of perpetual motion, but it is not man-made.
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Tesla's tower, perhaps?  This is just another way we know that the solar wind is NOT electrically neutral, since the Earth has to absorb the energy and balance itself through the aurora act.  Our instruments in space can't detect the charge difference because the solar "wind" (or electric current) is so big in its plasma state, and the difference per cubic meter is so small.\n\nThis is why scientists like Phil Plait who ride on the nuts of big names like Einstein just might be wrong, but who are we to question Einstein, right?  Well we got bigger and better telescopes and satellites for one, and we've been able to take better pictures and observations because of this.  Damn, I think they were barely discovering the Sun's magnetic field during Einstein's time.\n\nThere are so many examples out there that demonstrate the electrical nature of the universe.\n\nMars, and how it got blasted?  Yep.\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlajPWBaIISxPbzkjEFDsqzsy6IX?qid=20060619194732AAwm9Mf\n\nComet's and their interactions with the Sun? Yep.  Venus' almost perfectly circular orbit, how we detected a long, "stringy" plasma structure issuing from Venus that nearly reached our planet, and how Venus spins the other direction very slowly, and how the entire planet has a nearly brand new surface, AND how ancient names for it are morning star, BEARDED planet, HAIRY planet, and SMOKY planet?  Oh yeah, double mother-fuckin' check on that.\n\nRead up on the "Electric Universe" theory, it's the future of space science.  All these old guys at NASA will be out of jobs if word ever gets out, so they'll get really mad when their life's work is challenged and I guess I can understand that.... but get OUT!
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If someone does then they haven't told me.  As for self sustaining energy, the second law of thermodynamics forbids any such thing from existing.