Re: Tapping the Casimir Force

Frank Earl ( fearl@airmail.net )
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:20:22 -0500

> I received the following email today and was reading it at lunch. I
> started choking when I realized he was talking AMPS, not milliamps as
> in his original post;

Jerry, I caught on to this little concept the moment I saw the
post- but I've been busy so I've not asked for clarification of
the current load capacity of the supposed device.

> Correct me if I'm wrong but thats nearly 6000 Watts!

Yep, that's about right- that's enough to do LOTS of things.
If you're selective as to what you're doing at any one point
in time, you could power your entire house off of that.

> Read my email again... I am getting 50 AMPS! No milli included, but 50
> true amps.

Lordy. That's a massive amount of energy out of a small unit
like he's describing. I wouldn't mind a personal demo...

> This is the only limit to power out...
>
> ______
> I I
> wires out12Ga. ---> ====I______I
>
> When overloaded, the wires melt...

Yeah, I'd say so.

> Am building larger one that will
> have wrist sized cables that will not act as to small a fuse for the
> heavy current draw, and am going to earth ground the supply with an
> ammeter in series...

He doesn't have to use cables _that_ heavy. They sell 2kA cabling
for power distribution within small aviation aircraft. I'd reccomend
to him that he use those instead- power cables like he's describing
translate into mega-lethal energy densities.