Defense Intelligence Reference Document Concepts For Extracting Energy From The Quantum Vacuum

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.

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Figure 13 shows a SEM photo of a single EV shot on a Palladium (Pd) target from a 40
pf capacitor charged to 3,000 Volts (containing 7.5 x 10 11 electrons). At least 100 tiny
craters were formed in the target. The larger craters formed in the Pd target as seen in
the photo suggest a very energetic impact that melted the Pd locally, making a small
hole surrounded by a crater wall.
Figure 13. SEM of EV Damage to Palladium Target (Reference 36)
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