A few years ago, I had the privilege of meeting Wingate Lambertsen. He
designed and was testing a power generation technique that he called WIN
cells.
These cells rely on the Casimir force which is the pressure of the zpf
(zero point field) of space...a kind of high density, complex of
electromagnetic frequencies. When two flat metal plates are placed
close enough to each other, this zpf background pressure will try to
push the plates together.
(NOT ATTRACT AS SO OFTEN STATED because people have a problem GRASPING
PUSH GRAVITY..<G>..)
The Casimir Effect is a well documented and known effect but hadn't been
put to practical use that I ever heard of before the WIN cell, though
science writer Robert L. Forward described a self restoring spring
mechanism that would milk this mechanical pressure to extract sufficient
force to do work.
Now Wingate said he makes these cells out of ceramic discs that are
electrically connected into stacked columns, so that the series
accumulation of electrical discharges can be collected to drive a load.
He reported running several hundred watt lightbulbs using only these
stacked cells to drive the bulbs.
The problem was that the bulbs had a very short life when operated on
this energy. Wingate said they would wane and brighten apparently due to
fluctuations in the aether/zpe/zpf intensity and periodically a spike
would come through that would shatter the filament in the bulbs. He
joked that his wife complained because of him ruining so many good light
bulbs.
So, he realized he needed something that would compensate for these
energy fluctuations so he connected SODIUM lamps to the stacked cells
and I have seen a photo of 6 of these being run from his stacked cells.
I don't have the details at the moment, but I recall 1500 Watts as the
number reported for the load using the 6 which would be about 250 Watt
per sodium lamp.
The beauty of this type of lamp is it ionizes the captured sodium to
produce that garish light that also repels insects...Wingate found that
the lamps could absorb the zpe EM spikes that were fracturing the
tungsten filaments.
Wingate offered a workshop that I attended, I'd guess there were about
20 others. He passed around ONE of these cells and I inspected it as
thoroughly as possible...it consisted of two ceramic discs separated by
a very thin coating of what looked like RTV (silicone type caulk).
At the time, it didn't register with me that the cermet/ceramic discs
were the key so I asked Mr. Lambertsen if he had ground quartz or other
crystals mixed in with the RTV OR were in the form of small pieces
separating the discs....he smiled and said he wasn't at liberty to talk
about that because he was in the process of getting a patent...
Only later did I get the DUH moment, when it dawned on me that the
ceramic discs are the same thing used for piezo transducers, just that
these were thicker.
Apply a sharp mechanical impact to a piezo material and it produces a
high voltage discharge. This is the principle of the lighting mechanism
in modern day butane lighters, with a spring loaded hammer that strikes
a crystal to light the gas and produce fire.
If you apply a high voltage spike to a piezo, it will produce a
mechanical thrust...do it repeatedly and it becomes a speaker
(transducer)....there are even cooling blades that use rapid high
voltage discharges into piezo fan blades to move air at some velocity
and in more of an entertainment vein, the cool acousto-optic transducer
which is basically a mirror mounted on a piezo crystal that is swept in
a controlled X or Y axis so that it PAINTS a picture on any surface with
the laser beam.
So, we have;
1) the pushing force of the universe from complex EM waves popping into
and out of existence
2) the Casimir effect where two metal plates are PUSHED together when
maintained at a minimum distance
3) the piezoelectric effect of ceramic discs
4) the 'springy' effect of a thin layer of silicone caulk
Put all that together and you have an Oreo cookie, where the filling is
the silicone caulk, the chocolate cookie faces are the ceramic.
So you connect a wire to each disc and voila, you have a WIN cell.
As the waves of ZPF push the two ceramic discs together at the Casimir
distance, the mechanical pressure creates a high voltage discharge and
the rubbery effect of the silicone caulk PUSHES the plates back apart,
serving as a natural restorative effect.
Now duplicate lots of these and connect them in series to increase the
overall power to what you need.
Wingate SAID he had a patent in the works but I can find nothing
remotely related to the Casimir effect, his name or WIN cells.
I was thinking I had posted this on at least one earlier email but can't
find anything that SPECIFICALLY lays this out so others can contribute,
experiment or comment on it.
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Casimir Effect
http://sga.ex.ac.uk/aip/glimpse.txt/physnews.300.3.html
According to quantum mechanics empty space the vacuum is not truly empty
but instead contains fleeting electromagnetic waves and particles that
pop into and out of existence.
However when the vacuum is bounded by a pair of conducting surfaces the
only electromagnetic waves that can exist are those with wavelengths
shorter than the distance between the surfaces.
The exclusion of the longer wavelengths results in a tiny force between
the conductors.
To measure the Casimir force Steve Lamoreaux now at Los Alamos 505 667
5005 employs a torsion pendulum a twisting horizontal bar suspended by a
tungsten wire.
The attraction between a gold plated sphere and a second gold plate
causes a small twisting force in the bar. By applying a voltage
sufficient to keep the twisting angle of the bar fixed Lamoreaux
determined the force caused by the attraction of the plates.
(note they still miss it...its A PUSHING FORCE, not an ATTRACTING
FORCE!!)
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Piezoelectric properties and ceramics;
http://www.channeltech.com/cii/page03.htm
The piezoelectric effect is exhibited in a certain group of crystalline
solid materials whose unit cells do not possess a center of symrnetry.
These materials, when mechanically stressed, will produce an electrical
charge, and conversely, when an electric field is applied, a mechanical
strain will occur, changing the dimensional shape of the material.
The piezoelectric effect is exhibited in a certain group of crystalline
solid materials whose unit cells do not possess a center of symrnetry.
These materials, when mechanically stressed, will produce an electrical
charge, and conversely, when an electric field is applied, a mechanical
strain will occur, changing the dimensional shape of the material.
Currently the most widely-used piezoelectric transducer materials are
poly-crystalline ceramics based on lead zirconate titanate and barium
titanate compositions. Specific additives are included to give each
composition unique dielectric, piezoelectric and physical properties.
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