This week, a company called Casimir Inc. emerged from “stealth mode” to announce that it had raised significant funding from venture capitalists willing to roll the dice on free energy. That’s right: a startup has gotten serious backing to develop sources of perpetual free energy. The people behind this fantastic new energy generator also brought us the wildly successful ~~WTF thruster~~ EM-drive that could supposedly directly convert electricity into a propulsive force.
(Its one practical application was in the show Salvation, where it was treated with the same detailed attention to physical laws as Galaxy Quest’s Omega-13.)
With that success, who are we to be skeptical?
Casimir Inc. is convinced it can squeeze energy from the vacuum via the Casimir force (hence the subtle reference in the name). The Casimir force is a real thing, arising from the fact that a vacuum is not actually nothing. Instead, it is filled with a froth of virtual particles becoming real in pairs, waving to us, annihilating each other, and sinking back into the soup of virtual particles. The Casimir force emerges when we create an imbalance in the spatial distribution of these virtual particles, leading to a pressure as the Universe seeks to equalize the distribution.
Same people that made the scammy nonworking EmDrive
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