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in both directions at an equal rate so

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this cannot work and if we sit back for

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a moment and think about it we say of

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course it can't work because nature is

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full of nonlinearities biological matter

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has nonlinearities geological matter has

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nonlinearities and if in fact we could

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have nonlinearities to rectify

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fluctuations that would mean there'd be

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hot spots all over the place in nature

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wherever there was a non-linearity we

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don't find that this cannot work putting

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this in a more general term ratchets do

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not work in systems that are under

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equilibrium there was another patent

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that came out earlier by Franklin Mead

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which according to my analysis uses the

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same sort of principle this patent is

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called system for converting

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electromagnetic radiant radiation energy

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to electrical energy and what it uses

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are two spheres that are slightly

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dissimilar in size they create a beat

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frequency a beat resonance frequency

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between them which downshifts the

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zero-point energy vibrations to a lower

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frequency an antenna then absorbs this

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radiation it's rectified and we get out

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DC power it can't work for the same

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reason we're using a we're trying to

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rectify background radiation it doesn't

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work next mechanical extraction a Pinto

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wrote a number of patents a paper

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started a company based on this the

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method is called method for energy

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extraction in a paper he shows a Carnot

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cycle in which as with a normal car no

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system you can extract energy

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continuously by going around the cycle

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let's take a look at his basic concept

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so he has a Casimir cavity and in the

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Casimir cavity there are two plates that

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are attracted to each other we make use

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of this attraction and allow the plates

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to move together extract that energy

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then

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what he does is he essentially turns off

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one of those plates he extracts some

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electrons from it by various means that

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reduces the attractive force between the

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two plates then in step number three he

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can pull the plates apart more easily

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since the attractive force has been

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decreased then he replenishes the charge

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into the plates and then repeats the

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process and so he has a process that

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goes around and around so question is

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can you do this and the basic question

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is really is the zero-point force is the

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Casimir force a conservative force let

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me give you an example of a conservative

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force gravity is conservative so if I

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take a brick and I let a brick fall

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towards the earth and I extract the

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energy from it then when I lift the

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brick up to do the same thing again I

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use just as much energy to lift the

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brick up as I got by dropping it down

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that's an example of a conservative

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force well it turns out that the Casimir

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force is conservative there are a number

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of analyses that show that this is in

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fact the case that means that pentose

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idea cannot work in particular

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extracting the charge from one of those

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plates to reduce the Casimir force the

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process of extracting that charge must

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use at least as much energy as you get

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from letting the two Casimir plates fall

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together and so the general principle

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here is that you cannot obtain power

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continuously from changes in Casimir

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cavity spacing let's now take a look at

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our third example so our third example

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is pumping gas through casimir cavities

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there was a patent by two characters

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Bernie high-ish and Garrett Modell and

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they actually wrote this up in 2005 I

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think and the patent was issued in 2008

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surprisingly by the way for for our

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patent attorney here all of the claims

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were accepted by the patent office and

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it's called quantum vacuum energy

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extraction

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and let's take a look at the principal

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electrodynamics according to stochastic

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electrodynamics we have atoms and the

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atoms have electrons orbiting a nucleus

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because the electrons are constantly

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oscillating around the nucleus they're

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constantly radiating and so there's

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constant radiation of energy this

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radiation is balanced by incoming

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radiation from the zero-point field

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that's in the background and so we have

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a dynamic equilibrium between incoming

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and outgoing energy this is not the

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usual way that physics looks at an atom

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but it works it's been shown to work as

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much accuracy as the traditional quantum

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mechanical view that means that if we

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take an atom and we put it inside of a

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Casimir cavity then in that Casimir

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cavity we know that there are going to

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be a fewer electromagnetic modes

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available and if we tune the cavity

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right what we can do is we remove some

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of those modes that support the

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electronic orbital the end result is

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that the electron spins down it spins to

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a lower energy and we end up with a

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different sort of orbital in within the

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Casimir cavity so how is this used to

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obtain energy from the vacuum the idea

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is pretty simple take gas flow it into

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the Casimir cavity as the gas enters the

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Casimir cavity energy is emitted shown

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by these two blue arrows that excess

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energy that's emitted is absorbed you

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can absorb it in a detector you can

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absorb it in a bath of water and so on

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and it's used and that's that's the

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energy that we get from the process then

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when the gas is continues to flow out of

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the Casimir cavity and back into the

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ambient universe it's recharged the

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electron is recharged

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the ambient zero-point energy and goes

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back to its initial state then repeat

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this process and so you can pump the gas

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over and over through the Casimir cavity

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and in principle obtain energy so the

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idea can be thought of as a heat pump

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but for zero point energy where we're

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simply pumping energy from one place the

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the ambient universe to a local place

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our absorber so a question is can we

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make this practical and are we

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disobeying any fundamental laws so the

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initial reaction is wait a minute the

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zero-point energy background is uniform

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and we've said that it's in equilibrium

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how can you obtain energy from a uniform

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background imagine that you've got an

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ocean that's all the same temperature

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and in this ocean you want to make use

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of the heat well you can't pump the heat

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or allow the heat to flow from one

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region to another region and use it

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because the temperature is the same

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everywhere so isn't that going to be the

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same with the zero-point energy and

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aren't you going to end up with the same

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sort of problem and not be able to use

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the energy well the answer is actually

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no because the vacuum state changes with

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boundary conditions it's not uniform

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everywhere we can change the ground

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level and that is if we have a Casimir

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cavity within that geometrical

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geometrically constrained region we've

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got a lower ground energy level and so

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we actually do have multiple levels

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which allow energy to flow from one

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level to another so we're not being

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constrained by the the fact that that

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zero-point energy is at equilibrium

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similarly were not being constrained by

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the fact that that we need to that the

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zero-point energy is a conservative

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force because we're not using any sort

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of mechanical process moving Casimir

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two flaws in the previous two types of

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zero point energy extraction methods I

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believe do not apply to this so is it

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practical I did some calculations based

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on how much energy we think is going to

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be emitted from each atomic transition

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as it goes through the Casimir cavity

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and what we need is about ten to the

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twenty two transitions per second to get

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a kilowatt you can do that in a stack of

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of cds for example about 20 cds that's

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about this big and you can then allow

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and pump the gas through this and

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continuously radiate about a kilowatt of

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zero point energy it takes if you do a

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calculation about point four wats to

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carry out the pumping and so the energy

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out is at least a factor of a thousand

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greater than the energy in so in

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principle this should work is there

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another flaw an underlying principle

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that we're breaking here that says that