[I have no idea where this comes from. The first page is headed 03NTO-890717CM04, and the last page (of 4) is footed "(APN)"] Newsgroups, 7/94 [Bob P. says it came from Vol6(1)#7/July 1990 of the Planetary Association for Clean Energy's (PACE) news letter.] VACUUM ENERGY: A BREAKTHROUGH? [heading] By Andrei Samokhin The model of a plasma generator which can convert physical-vacuum energy into electricity has been developed under Prof. Alexander CHERNETSKI at the Moscow Georgi Plekhanov Institute of the National Economy. Such generators could lay the groundwork for the future environmentally-benign power industry. [text] Classical physics cannot explain what happens when a plasma discharger placed in the Chernetski circuit is started: for no apparent reason the ammeter pointer shows triple strength-of-current increase [sic] and energy output is several times above input. The plant's efficiency is much more than 1. No magic is intended. Additional energy outputs at specific plasma discharges are fixed in several independent expert reportsby the Lenin All-Union Institute of Electrical Engineering. This effect has been checked by different methods. Whence this mysterious energy? Self-generating discharge ------------------------- Prof Chernetski, the author of the first ever study paper on plasma-diagnotics equipment (he has been in this field fro 40 years now) and 20 inventions, never knew what he was probing into specific unstable plasma states at strong-current discharges could have led to. In the early 70s, he and fellow-researcher Yuri Galkin worked on a basically new type of high-frequency plasma generator which could at high power do without unwieldy energy converters. In one test, they discovered input-output energy gap. [sic] "I knew electron drift begins in plasma and sought to deduce a combination of variables in which fluctuating plasma instability emerged in discharge," Chernetski says. "Gas discharge was meant to serve as a powerful stimulator of electromagnetic modes and, all of a sudden and in defiance of the law of conservation of energy, a strange energy imbalance was produced. Repeated experiments with different circuits proved energy output to be always greater than input." The mysterious discharge stimulating additional energy extraction was called the "self generating discharge (SGD)". Measurements showed that part of the discharge power went back into the network as if two series-connected electromotive forces were at work. In a bid to try to explain the experimental data, the researchers actually tried to prove the impossible. One of their proofs was very "strong". The one-megawatt substation of the Moscow Aviation Institute, where Chernetski and Galkin were staging an experiment with a powerful plasma unit, burned out. When the dischrage currents reached criticality, superstrong current was "born" in the generator and went back into the network, playing havoc with the safety devices calculated for short-circuit. Later on, they read in books that earlier in the century the power plant of prominent Yugoslav electrical engineer Nikola Tesla caught fire under similar circumstances in the United States. Chernetski and Galkin were sure that Tesla was making such experiments, but did not publish the results. They are also sure that vacuum energy can explain this mysterious effect. A vacuum-Powered Lamp The researchers relied on the present-day quantum physics idea of "zero-point oscillations" in physical vacuum. Such oscillations signifying the birth and annihilation of virtual pairs -- the particle and anti-particle, distinguished from the normal elementary particles by a negligibly short life, a mere 8.10/-21[sic] sec. Emerging below the zero energy level from "nothing" and returning to "nothing", virtual particles as if defy the law of conservation of energy. Quantum electrodynamics explains this paradox through the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Under it all the precise particle characteristics cannot be learnt simulatneously and, therefore, one must not require from nature "punctual" abidance by the law during such a short time as the life of virtual pairs. The observer fails to notice anything, while every virtual pair is more than real, carrying an energy of more than half a million electron-volts during its lifetime. The potential energy in the electric bulb vacuum is enough to boil the earth's oceans, Americans John Wheeler and Richard Feynman have calculated. Until recently the vacuum energy idea was only a daring hypothesis bordering on science-fiction. The lamp powered by vacuum in Chernetski's basememt laboratory in the center of Moscow made it a reality. This is how he explains his mricaulaous experiment: "The self-generating discharge emerges when the discharge current reach a definite critical density, when the magnetic fields they create ensure magnetisation of plasma electrons and they begin to perform mostly cycloid movements. The interaction of currents with their magnetic fields forces the electrons to deviate to the cylinder-shaped discharge axis and the electrical field emerges. It has proved to 'switch on' the physical vacuum: in this field the vacuum is polarised and consequently the virtual pairs begin to move in a definite direction, instead of chaotically. the virtual positrons accelerate plasma electrons, giving them part of their energy. The current in the circuit builds up and additional energy is discharged on the resistor switched into the discharge circuit. Clearly, only part of the tremendous vacuum energy is extracted. "We've developed several circuit versions which can find application. In the later experiment with an input power of 700 watts, that extracted by the generator loads resistance was three kilowatts, or nearly five times more. This is by far not the limit and with more powerful plants and the corresponding calculations megawatts of free electricity can be produced from a minimal power source." Self-Generating-Discharge Plasmatron and Space Travel. Yuri Galkin looks at the future of their discovery: "Its applications are wide-ranging. For example, engines based on the self-generating-discharge plasmatron. Until now all attempts to use plasmatrons as engines failed, because strong electron and ion bombardments rapidly burnt out the electrodes. Self-generating discharge leaves them inatct and such engines can be used in aircraft, trains and autos. It would be logical to create a new environmentally-wise power industry. Portable hydros, wind power plants and solar batteries boosted by self-generating discharge could become an enormous source of electricity. With time, they could edge out the costly and hazardous fuel-firing and hydraulic [hydroelectric?] facilities. Already now we can build a plant which would supply electricity for a township or factory. A vacuum power station comparable to giant facilities could be designed today. Our discovery can revolutionise cosmonautics." Laboratory experiments have proved the possibility of using the kinetic effect of self-generating discharge for accelerating bodies in space. Galkin has calculated the parameters of a self-generating-discharge plasmatron that could serve as the propulsion engine of the future, replacing the present unwieldy rocket engines. Powered by a minor ten-volt source, it can deliver power enough for the takeoff of a large spaceship. Tapping the ambient space vacuum, it could fly eternally. Unknown Waves "We didn't think of only industrial applications," Chernetski recalls. "Self-generating discharge turned out to produce wave radiation which was hitherto unknown, but evidently existent at all times. Like sound waves, its waves have a longitudinal electric field component and a high penetrability through condcutive mediums, including metals. It turned out that these single waves, 'awakening' the hidden vacuum energy, can alster substance structure. "the experiment staged at the Burdenko Institute of Neurosurgery in Moscow several years ago showed that directional SGD radiation accelerated nuclear beta-decomposition by 5%-6%. This is only one example. We supposed that, like SGD-generator radiation, longitudinal electric-field component waves could also be produced by living beings, man in particular. Comparative experiments were staged to prove the impact on men with extrasensory perception and of our device on different objects. In both cases parallel impact on the high-stability quartz generator made its frequency 'drift' by several orders of magnitude. The filament resistance of the incandescent lamp decreased considerably. Probably we are on the road to explaining such mysterious things as extrasensory perception, telekinesis and bioenergy. Vacuum-Ether The experimentally-verified concept of Chernetski claims to be a theoretical breakthrough in the basic quantum-physics idea of the energy structure of the Universe. It is generally recognised among physicists that all elementary particle interactions, and hence every existing phenomenon, occur with the help of virtual-particle exchange. How does it come about? "Full annihilation of virtual pairs cannot take place in the event of partial energy extraction in self-generating discharge, because a 'certain' virtual dipole must emerge -- two separate charges with a common negative energy. This means that together with energy extraction vacuum structurisation and ordering takes place. Actually, our concept is a return to the idea of the universal ether at an entirely new level. We say that the ordered dipole vacuum, or ether, is an all-penetrating energy medium in which processes occur which are related to virtual dipoles and subject to the uncertainty principle of modern physics." Chernetski asks: if vacuum structurisation is a constant process, isn't this an opportunity to state the law of conservation of entropy in the Universe in opposition to the idea of its steadfast decrease? What if this work helps to clear up the nature of gravitation, which is as dim now as it was in the times of Newton? What his concept of the vacuum shows the road to the long-awaited explanation of the Grand Unification theory? "As as experimental physicist I won't say our theory is 100 percent correct," Chernetski declares. "It's much more an opportunity now to have indisputable experimental data to prove the opportunity of creating a basically new power industry." Only a rapid switch to new energy can save human civilisation from ecological catastrophe. The research program must be developed immediately and a center set up to coordinate cooperation between world scientists. Natural and unlimited vacuum energy is at our doorstep. Thanks for the transcript Chris. Any idea where your friend Prasad obtained this info? (v guruprasad, prasad@watson.ibm.com) Was there a date on it?