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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 6 April 2010, is one in a series of FY 2009 advanced technology reports produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program. It reviews the physics of zero-point field energy in the quantum vacuum and proposed schemes for extracting it, including the Casimir effect, Forward's vacuum-fluctuation battery, and resonant dielectric spheres. It notes that no practicable extraction technique has been demonstrated in the laboratory.
UNCLASSIFIED//FIHl 8FFHil.t.k Wfili IH.k\f created impact craters or holes in the materials. Piestrup et al. (Reference 46) performed more recent experiments to investigate this unusual phenomenon. This discovery inspired Shoulders to consider vortex filaments as a potential new source of energy, and hence he named them electromagnetic vortices or "EVs." However, given that he could not experimentally verify the vortex nature of the phenomenon, he later redefined EV to mean Electrum Validum (roughly translated as strong electron). Bostick and Shoulders began collaborating and realized that EVs were much easier to generate and observe using micro-arc discharge devices because they are usually obscured by surrounding plasma in large high-power plasma machines. This led Shoulders to design a series of low-voltage, low-power micro-arc discharge (or condensed-charge emission) devices to produce EVs in the lab. Figure 11 shows a schematic diagram for one embodiment of an EV (pulse discharge source) device. The EVs are generated at the cathode tip and then follow the path (dashed line above the dielectric) to the impact site on the ground plane (in the figure, C = capacitor and V = voltage). The EVs generated by such devices were able to reproduce the material damage observed in Nardi et al.'s earlier experiments. -V ~CATIIODE / / PATII \ ~-IE-L_E_C_TRI_c=C===~C ~ IMPACT SITE C _J_ ~--~GR=OU-=--=-.ND~P=L=l\N=E__~ Figure 11. Schematic of EV (Pulse Discharge Source) Device (Reference 47) 18 UNCLASSIFIED/ ,'P8"1 8PPll!l"'I! l!l!il! 8111!¥
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