From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Vacuum-Driven Power Exchange in the Free Electron Gas
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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 02:36:28 GMT

Hello,

I just received the following abstract from Tom Bearden.  Now before you
hit 'n', let me say that this abstract contains some curious information
and is somewhat of a departure from his usual style.  Of course, I'd like
critical feedback on his claims, etc., although the lack of supporting
information (because this is an abstract combined with the ability Bearden
has of talking around issues), may make critiquing difficult.

I am also cross-posting this to sci.optics since he talks about a very unusual
destructive effect sometimes observed in large fiber optic systems, a "fiber
optic fuse", which I'd like more information about.  He speculates that this is
a *real-world* observation of vacuum energy extraction.  In addition, he talks
about aspects of non-linear optics.  I am also cross-posting this to
sci.electronics, since he seems to be making (cryptically at least) some
recommendations for experimental work that may fall into that area.  And, of
course, my apologies to the sci.physics.fusion crowd, but he does make some
speculations in this area as well.

(Actually, I believe he is revealing a few more tidbits about the Sweet device,
which he's been doing the last two years in his various papers, etc.  The Sweet
device *supposedly* has been observed to produce excess electrical power,
apparently from the vacuum.  Bearden claims that if one reads between the lines
in several of his papers, and tries to understand his theory (which he admits
may not prove correct in the long-run), that an experimentalist should be able
to reproduce the Sweet device.  For example, in prior papers he talks about
using barium doped materials, such as non-linear optics people use in their
pumped conjugate wave devices.  In fact, he says the Sweet device is very
similar to these devices, except that it is pumped at very low frequencies
rather than at optical frequencies.  Is barium the dopant he talks about here
for copper?  Bearden *claims* that he is prevented by confidentiality agreement
from actually describing details of the Sweet device, but he sees no problem in
talking about "physics".  I know, I know, lots of unsubstantiated claims, but
if nothing else it makes interesting bed-time reading.)

I look forward to seeing the full paper, which I should receive fairly
soon.  I won't, however, post it to Usenet until it has been presented at
the intended meeting in the Fall of '93.  You'll just have to wait.

Enjoy.

Jon Noring

(p.s., if you'd like the other Bearden/Puthoff/etc. papers dealing with
the possibilities of tapping the vacuum energy, you can find them at
anonymous ftp site lupulus.ssc.gov, in subdirectory /papers ).


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      On the Possibility of Extracting Energy From the Vacuum-Driven
                 Power Exchange in the Free Electron Gas


A quantum field theoretic view is taken of the free electron gas (FEG) in
normal electromagnetic circuits, to examine the virtual photon flux exchange
between the vacuum and the electron gas.  It is well-known that the amount
of power transmitted through the circuit in the conventional sense is
negligible compared to the enormous power exchange occuring in and on the
electrons in the FEG.  Utilizing calculated average electron velocity,
average collision frequency per electron, and average acceleration and
deceleration work performed upon each electron in each collision, a simplified
calculation of the FEG power exchange in a copper wire of one cm^3 volume is
presented.  Approximately 4x10^12 megawatts of power actually exists in the
copper conductor - the equivalent of 4 billion large electric power plants,
each of 1000 megawatt capacity.  The author stresses that this power is
electromagnetic, not nuclear, and is driven by lattice interactions and the
virtual particle flux of the vacuum.  Possible means to extract useful energy
from the driven FEG are discussed, and effects and experiments that may be
actual examples are pointed out.

Utilizing a rigorous definition of the scalar EM potential, the bounded FEG
can be taken as a scalar EM potential.  Utilizing Whittaker/Ziolkowski/
Ignatovich (WZI) decomposition of the scalar EM potential into a harmonic
set of paired bidirectional EM waves, the FEG-as-a-potential can be decomposed
into ordered waves.  In the WZI decomposition, the biwaves essentially form
*pump* waves, in the nonlinear optics sense.  Since copper wire has impurities,
the copper may be regarded as a nearly *degenerate semiconductor*.  With more
deliberate doping, the approximation is improved.  If the doped copper can be
induced to act as an extremely low efficiency phase conjugate mirror (PCM)
with the WZI decomposition biwaves as pump waves, then 4-wave mixing theory
will allow some of the FEG power to be extracted.  It would appear, however,
that the doping must also increase the relaxation time, which in normal copper
is ~1.5x10^-19 s, but ranges up to ~10 days in fused quartz.

As a possible example of actually tapping the FEG energy, the little-known
fiber fuse effect in fiber optics cables is discussed.  Once initiated with
only a slight heat input, this replicable effect yields anomalous excess
energy that destructively propagates upstream at about 1 m/s velocity,
blowing out material from the inner core, leaving small bullet-shaped holes
at regular intervals (typically every centimeter or so) and ruining the
cable.  Even more strangely, under certain conditions material previously
blown out of the holes can be caused to reinsert itself *back into the 
holes*, healing the inner core and restoring the cable's normal function.
The author argues that the excess energy and strange reversibility may
possibly be explained by four-wave mixing (FWM) effects in the WZI biwave
decomposition of the FEG-as-a-potential, with the core as a pumped PCM.
If so, it is a *replicable* example of tapping the FEG power.

Several other experiments that produce anomalous excess EM energy are
discussed, including Meyer's water electrolysis by pulses of potential and
Graneau's electromagnetic explosions in water.  Also, it is hypothesized
that the small percentage of cold fusion experiments with deuterium-doped
palladium electrodes that succeed, may be utilizing the same FWM effect
to extract energy from the virtual photon flux-driven trapped deuterium
nuclei.

That the vacuum VPF-driven FEG power exists in such enormous magnitude is
factual.  That useful power can be extracted from it to power an external
load is an hypothesis.  Evidence to date appears encouraging, but not yet
decisive.  The author urges scientists and engineers to interest themselves
in this unconventional enormous source of power exchange, and to explore
the possibility of developing FEG-driven power extraction processes and
devices.

**********************end of abstract**************************


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