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Energy and electromagnetism.
Current textbooks for engineers and physicists claim that an electric charge is a source of electromagnetic fields and potentials. But what is only being described in the field of quantum electrodynamics is that an electric charge is a generator which causes the polarization of the quantum vacuum. So an electromagnetic field is being expressed through the polarization of the virtual photons.
In common ideal electromagnetic systems the energy received in the output is equal to the input energy. So usually one would expect that we are dealing here with a common form of energy conservation. However we would like to bring to mind that this need not necessarily be the case.
Out of the quantum vacuum energy is being permanently created and destroyed. This steady production and annihilation process of energy is usually symmetrical which means that in the end of an observable energy conversion process no net production or loss of energy can be noticed.
However a so called
asymmetrical electromagnetic system can break the symmetry between this creation and annihilation process and therefore a coefficient of performance of greater or smaller than 100% becomes possible.
The law of the conservation of energy does not forbid the generation of energy from the quantum vacuum and a coefficient of performance of greater than 100% in open systems, it just says that in symmetrical systems you will never observe the net production or annihilation of energy.
A new class of electromagnetic systems: Asymmetrical electromagnetic systems.
If one desires to extract electromagnetic energy from the quantum vacuum with a coefficient of performance of greater than 100%, one first has to understand the concept of the self-symmetrizing process. The self-symmetrizing action is from the view of the author a fundamental property of nature. In a very tricky way, this mechanism keeps us from seeing the steady and symmetric energy exchange between the electromagnetic system and the quantum vacuum. The self-symmetrizing mechanism which is at work in all common symmetric electromagnetic systems, describes the symmetry between the energy from the quantum vacuum which supplies the load with energy and the energy from the quantum vacuum which destroys the Input dipole. Once this concept is understood we can proceed to develop a technology which can destroy the self-symmetrizing process to a certain degree.
Scientists in Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have constructed a solar cell which can absorb the light of a specific wave length in such a way, that one photon can energize more than one electron. As soon as the electron absorbs a photon, it disappears for a very short moment into the quantum field. Being in the virtual state the electron can borrow energy from the vacuum and thereafter appears again in our reality. Now the electron can energize up to 7 other electrons.
This leads to a theoretical coefficient of performance of 700%. The experiment has already been replicated successfully by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado.
(New Scientist, May 27, 2006, p 45, “Make solar cells as small as a molecule; and you get more than you bargained for. Could this be the route to limitless clean power, asks Herb Browdy”)
September, 2007
Marcus Reid