Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included
by Chris Lee from Ars Technica - All content on (#75N5R)
This week, a company called Casimir Inc. emerged from stealth mode" to announce that it had raised significant funding from venture capitalists willing to roll the dice on free energy. That's right: a startup has gotten serious backing to develop sources of perpetual free energy. The people behind this fantastic new energy generator also brought us the wildly successful WTF thruster EM-drive that could supposedly directly convert electricity into a propulsive force.
(Its one practical application was in the show Salvation, where it was treated with the same detailed attention to physical laws as Galaxy Quest's Omega-13.)
With that success, who are we to be skeptical?