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I'm not as convinced as you. There does appear to be something going on with the experiments I've looked at, but I doubt it can be commercialized. For one thing
by jeffreyrogers 6y ago
I'm not as convinced as you. There does appear to be something going on with the experiments I've looked at, but I doubt it can be commercialized. For one thing, it's very unreliable and hard to reproduce, so if it is a real phenomenon it probably relies on some unknown conditions that we don't know how to bring about. For another, even in the experiments that demonstrate it, the amount of energy produced is not very much so unless someone can find a way to make it happen reliably and scale it up it seems more like a neat physical oddity than a useful power source.
- pfdietz 6y agoAh, the "there must be a pony in here somewhere" argument. No, that's the meaningless noise one gets when one throws enough bad researchers at a crap subject over a sufficiently long time.
- jeffreyrogers 6y agoMaybe. That's why I hedged a bit by saying "if it is a real phenomenon". I'm not convinced it is real, but I'm also not convinced there's nothing to it. Schwinger thought there was something to it, so they're not all bad.