Zero Point Energy, AKA ZPE, has been a somewhat serious undertaking of various scientists. There is also TONS of new-age quackery in this area.
One of the two Scientists I know personally who are looking at the whole ZPE thing is Bernard Haisch. See his bio below and. Also see some more colorful and far less credible ZPE stuff at The Tom Bearden website: http://www.cheniere.org/ I don't know Bearden from adam, but what I love most about this site is what happens when you drag your mouse around the top of the page-try it! - Jan Bernard Haisch, Ph. D. Bernard is an astrophysicist and has authored or co-authored over 130 scientific publications and has been a principal investigator on numerous NASA research projects. He served for ten years as a scientific editor for the "Astrophysical Journal" and has been on the editorial board of "Solar Physics" and "Speculations in Science and Technology." For twelve years, he acted as Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Scientific Exploration." He has been a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute fuer Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany; a visiting scientist at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands; and Deputy Director of the Center for EUV Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. He co-chaired two major conferences of the International Astronomical Union: "Solar and Stellar Flares" at Stanford University in 1988 and "Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet" at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995. Bernard received his doctorate in astronomy from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and completed three years of postdoctoral research at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado. He spent 20 years as a staff scientist at the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory and the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory. From 1999 to 2002 he led a team of five postdoctoral physicists studying problems in fundamental physics related to the quantum vacuum at the privately-funded California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Palo Alto, California. His biography appears in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and American Men and Women of Science. _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FRIAM] "free energy" At a Christmas eve party here in Santa Fe (the city very different) , a number of new age or whatever folks were talking about "free energy" which they claimed was a scientific reality. Being somewhat of a sceptic and cynic, I cried out a Dickens' humbug. But thought I would toss this out to the FRIAM list to see if anyone knew anything about so-called "free energy". cheers Paul _____ See AOL's top <http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004> rated recipes and easy <http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aoltop00030000000003> ways to stay in shape for winter.
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