Casimir Effect Energy

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d_silin

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Casimir EffectZero-Point EnergySpace Propulsion

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Casimir Effect

Zero-Point Energy

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A company claims to be working on harnessing the Casimir Effect for energy generation, sparking discussion about the scientific validity and potential applications of this technology.

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d_silinAuthor

3 months ago

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For those wondering, yep, this would violate conservation of energy law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion

rich_sasha

3 months ago

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Would it violate the laws of conservation of VC capital?

(I have no idea if it's crazy or not but it's irrelevant if someone will fund it)

burnt-resistor

3 months ago

If there's no identifiable net energy input source to point to, then it's a claim of perpetual motion. The Moller Skycar, SpaceX Mars mission, and pigs flying will happen before this.

JPLeRouzic

3 months ago

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Claiming their chip produces only microwatts and that it could be used to power an EV is pretty funny.

burnt-resistor

3 months ago

I'd like to know what kind of magical Flavor Aid I should add to water served to VCs for them to hand me piles of money to work on something Philip E. Mason will eventually get around to debunking. Or do I just need a Harvard CS degree or 3 EE PhDs and then it's automatic mana from heaven via pedigree?

geraldog

3 months ago

@d_silin no disrespect towards Sonny White, he may well be onto something, but as it stands I've had posts flagged by the mods for much less, so without the hard evidence to back this, I'm a little skeptical - of YC mods LOL

pepa65

3 months ago

When they talk about the energy extracting capabilities of "their chips" I get very suspicious...

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