What mean the "zero-point" energy?

 

The model of Casimir effect

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What mean the "zero-point" energy?

The "Casimir-battery" is the power source, what is using the Casimir effect(1) to make the power. The idea of this kind of way to produce energy is basing the Casimir-effect, where the plates, what are extremely close to each other would stress with radiation would form the field, which would push those plates away from each other. So the idea is that the energy can be created by using Casimir-effect as the power source. 

There have been introduced many ideas, how to make this kind of system work, and one is just pushing the electrons to the electric circuit by using oscillating metal plates. So this might seem a very interesting and easy method in the paper, but it's very hard to make in practice. Here I must say that some people misunderstand this way to make the electricity to the chemical batteries, where the chemical reaction makes the electricity. 

The "Casimir battery" is one of the versions of the antimatter engines, because the virtual particles(3) are created always in the particle-antiparticle pairs if it bases the vacuum polarization(4). So the power system that uses this kind of power source could be very powerful. 

The model of Dielectric-plates

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if that kind of system can be made the model of it could be the fullerene layers, what are covered with metal atoms, and there would be two layers, that would cover the entire spacecraft. The layers would be separated from each other, and the entire layers would form the Casimir-plates(2), which are covering the entire craft, and create the electricity for its systems. The thing is that the system is very powerful, but the creation of it would be difficult. 

The difference between the zero-point energy system and other systems is that in the zero point systems plates or electrodes are forming the virtual particles between them. The idea of the "Casimir-battery" is that when the electrodes are put in the vacuum very close to each other, the fluctuations in the form of the vacuum are pulling and pushing those plates, and there is forming the virtual particle pairs, what is making possible to make the electricity. 

There is a couple of technical problems to make this kind of power source, and one of them is to make the system, where the metal plates are close enough together. The thing is that this makes the vacuum battery extremely difficult to make in the scale, where it can make the energy for cities or aircraft. 

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle

(4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric

Image I: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimirin_ilmi%C3%B6#/media/Tiedosto:Casimir_plates.svg

Image II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric