DON'T KNOW NOTHING MYSELF, BUT ....

Rick asked Thomas to talk about his letter from the DoE. Thomas gave a brief presentation, focusing two specific points:

"Department of Energy scientists and others ... have investigated zero point energy sciences.... Thus far, results clearly show that there is a net residual energy even at the zero absolute temperature, under vacuum conditions. A number of technical papers have been published in respected journals stating that, theoretically, zero point energy can be extracted from electromagnetic fluctuations of the vacuum. Additionally, eight patents have been issued on zero point energy, including one issued to the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory."
"Presently, scientific feasibility studies are in the beginning stages and the development of a technology for energy production from ZPE may be decades away."

"I'm not a phyiscist myself, but I guess these are respected scientists that the DoE is talking about. So, I guess they think there's something serious involved here, but they just aren't given the funds to do the necessary research. If there was funding, then scientific feasibility might be much realized much quicker than decades. I don't see anything crazy about putting $100 million into that kind of research, you can't even start to by a B-2 bomber for $100 million. I don't know, maybe there's nothing to it, but DoE doesn't seem to think that's the case, and what's wrong with trying to find out?" Thomas asked.