Just received the latest copy of the Space Energy Journal,
Volume XI, Issue 1 for March 2000. They are located as PO
BOX 1136, Clearwater, Florida 33757-1136.
You can contact them at spaceenergy@earthlink.net and you
can subscribe for $35/year in the US.
In this issue, they highlight a patent by Frank Mead from
December, 1996 which is 5,590,031 and note it clearly claims
to extract electrical energy from zero point electromagnetic
radiation.
This has been posted before as I've seen it several other
times but it always is worth resurrecting, the patent is at;
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn=US05590031__
A system is disclosed for converting high frequency zero
point electromagnetic radiation energy to electrical energy.
The system includes a pair of dielectric structures which
are positioned proximal to each other and which receive
incident zero point electromagnetic radiation.
The volumetric sizes of the structures are selected so that
they resonate at a frequency of the incident radiation.
The volumetric sizes of the structures are also slightly
different so that the secondary radiation emitted therefrom
at resonance interfere with each other producing a beat
frequency radiation which is at a much lower frequency than
that of the incident radiation and which is amenable to
conversion to electrical energy.
An antenna receives the beat frequency radiation. The beat
frequency radiation from the antenna is transmitted to a
converter via a conductor or waveguide and converted to
electrical energy having a desired voltage and waveform.
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ZPE appears across a broad spectrum of frequencies and one
of the interesting comments in the patent is on page 13;
"Since, as set forth hereinabove, the energy density of the
zero point radiation increases as the frequency of the
radiation increases, it is desirable that the spheres
resonate in as high a bandwidth of frequencies as possible.
Because the spheres 212 and 214 must be small in direct
proportion to the wavelength of the high frequencies of the
incident electromagnetic radiation 216 at which resonance is
desirably obtained, the spheres 212 and 214 are preferably
MICROSCOPIC in size.
Current lithographic techniques are capable of manufacturing
such microscopically small spheres mounted on a suitable
substrate thereby providing a suitably miniaturized system
210.
A miniaturized system enhances the energy output capability
of the system by enabling it to resonate at higher
frequencies at which there are correspondingly higher energy
densities.
Consequently, utilization of array 238 in the system 210
enhances the maximum amount of electrical energy provided by
the system 210."
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