Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / August 2006

Yep, you got it right.  Plenty of "free" energy around thanks to stars.
;-)  However, that is different from trying to extract "free energy"
from the quantum "vacuum".   Only fermions can "extract" energy from the
quantum "vacuum". ;-)  They basically have infinite energy over all
time.  Fermions don't "wind down" unless "destroyed".

FrediFizzx

Quantum Vacuum Charge papers;
http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.pdf
or postscript
http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.ps
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0601110
http://www.vacuum-physics.com

It is free.
Dirt is free, potatoes are free, we pay to have dirt mined,
smelted into steel to make cars and potatoes picked, washed of
dirt and packaged into plastic bags to make food.
Enjoy sunshine, it has not yet been taxed, and grow your own
potatoes-- free. Only your fellow man is preventing you.
Unless you do not want to, of course. Then you must pay
or die. How will you pay? By providing labour. Free does
not mean you can be lazy (unless retired, like me, or
you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth, like
the Queen of England, and even she gets bored being lazy.

I cannot be lazy, this advice is free. Money is but a
measure of your contribution to the common good.
If I have done you service, pay me. If not, don't.
If I have done you service by your learning something
and you do not pay me, you are a thief.

Your call, I said  the advice was free, so you can decide
by your own conscience whether you should pay me or not.
Pay me and you have my respect. Fail,  and you do not.
It is up to you to decide, I make no demand. I am free.

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I
tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because
I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."  - Robert
A. Heinlein

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/robert_a_heinlein.html

Androcles