This 57-page DIA reference report reviews theoretical proposals and selected experiments concerning extraction of energy from the quantum vacuum. It distinguishes established quantum-vacuum and Casimir phenomena from the unproven proposition of useful continuous energy conversion: the report says standard QED does not support that conversion, regards competing frameworks as inadequate or incomplete, and calls for further theoretical and experimental work.
Quantum Vacuum
TopicQuantum Vacuum
TopicThis 51-page DIA reference report reviews laboratory-scale negative-energy states and proposes quantum optical homodyne tomography to measure squeezed-light and Casimir-vacuum fluctuations. It separates observed microscopic effects from speculative aerospace applications, stressing that access to larger, longer-lived negative-energy distributions is unknown and that quantum-inequality constraints remain experimentally unsettled.
TLDR: Actually the aether was never debunked. Light and all other physical phenomena are waves or fields, and a field is a property that has to belong to something rather than nothing, so there must be a medium everywhere that carries them. The Michelson-Morley experiment only failed to detect an ether wind because Lorentz already explained the null result with length contraction caused by motion through the ether, years before Einstein. Physicists preferred Einstein’s version because it need...

Casimir Inc. has been selected for a SpaceWERX STTR Phase I contract to develop a fully independent solid-state power generator for potential U.S. national security applications. The project will allow Casimir to refine its quantum vacuum-based power technology while assessing requirements for systems operating in remote and difficult-to-service environments. The award is part of the Department of the Air Force’s Open Topic SBIR/STTR program, which is designed to expand access to commercial t...

Can we engineer the vacuum to generate power and thrust? Former Skunk Works technologist Charles Chase discusses the UnLAB, coherent matter waves, Casimir energy and quantum-vacuum propulsion. FULL INTERVIEW:

Free Energy from the Vacuum? Warp Drive Pioneer Unveils Battery-Free ‘MicroSparc’ That Allegedly Draws Power from the Quantum Vacuum
Casimir, founded by NASA & DARPA warp drive scientist Sonny White, has unveiled a chip that allegedly draws energy from the quantum vacuum.