Now thats an interesting idea, that the Casimir effect might be
capacitive and that the Win cell might be a decreasing capacitance as
the plates come closer together.
Hmmmm....nature abhors a difference of potential, always seeking
balanced forces, an equilibrium.
High potential always moves to low potential.
So we have one plate that becomes highly charged and the electric
attraction to the lower charged plate is the Casimir force???
When the plates touch or come close enough, an arc discharge is sapped
from the cell to be used to power a load.
Sounds like an aerial tap where atmospheric electrons ar accumulated on
a conductive surface...as the potential rises, it eventually would
discharge to a ground.
If the load you are wanting to power is connected to the ground on one
side with the other side of the load being the receiving end of the
spark gap when the charged conductor discharges, you could extract
energy, though I think it would be fairly random. Perhaps a frequency
relationship could be derived so you had fairly reliable arc discharges.
However, I digress..the point was that the Win Cell might be a special
type of capacitor...intriguing idea....the question is what is the
material he is using for his wafer disk? It looked like ceramic to me,
possibly CERMET???
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