On 12/14/2009 11:11 AM, Terry Blanton wrote:
Hmmm, suppose you have an accordion device that you drop into the ocean
with a rock. The device pressurizes air as it sinks and locks into
place, then you drop the ballast and it floats to the top. You use the
pressurized air to do work. Is possible? If so, is it OU?
To start the cycle over again, you need to get the rock back to the surface.
If you assume an infinite supply of rocks, so you don't need to do that,
then you've already got an unlimited energy source available (at least
until the ocean fills up with rocks).
Terry
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Chris Zell <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Everytime the subject of zero point energy comes up, I wanna ask,
where's the 'drain', the 'cold side', the 'pressure release'?
At the bottom of the ocean, you have tons of pressure per square
inch but what good is that? You need an area of reduced pressure to
get a flow going. Likewise, hot to cold and uphill to downhill. If
zero point energy is squishing everything everywhere, what good is
it and furthermore, how can it be measured? Relative to what hole
in the cosmic vacuum?
I suppose the Casimir force is suggestive (like a bubble underwater
relative to surrounding pressure) but how can a continuous action be
created?
