How does the Searl Effect Generator produce electricity from space?

[roger]

I don't know much about physics, but I'm wondering how this machine actually works ?
http://www.searlsolution.com/energy4.html

It produces electrical power from the quantum energy field of space.

 

[cesiumfrog]

It doesn't take a quantum physicist to figure out how this one works:
step 1. create flashy publication to attract "investments"
step 2. there is no step 2.

 

[DrChinese]

I don't know much about physics, but I'm wondering how this machine actually works ?
http://www.searlsolution.com/energy4.html

It produces electrical power from the quantum energy field of space.

Gosh, why didn't I think of that?

Just to make it clear, there is no free lunch. There are no rogue physicists out there actually generating electric power from quantum fields. Don't let their gobbledegook deceive you... such false claims are very common. There are even people who use the internet to make money from trusting souls.

P.S. Yes, there is a quantum field which permeates space. It is sometimes called vacuum energy or zero point field. It consists of what is known as "virtual" particles. But there is no way to extract useful energy from it, because conservation of energy still applies as an overriding principle.

 

[roger]

But if they are claiming that this machine works, how does it do it then ?

they say somewhere on their website that it extracts useful energy from it using law of the squares.
So isn't it actually transferring energy from one form to another ?

 

[Garth]

But if they are claiming that this machine works, how does it do it then ?

It doesn't.

Read DrChinese again.

Garth

 

[Farsight]

roger: the latest is something from an Irish company called Steorn. People are sceptical about it, and I don't blame them. If I'd invented "free energy", I think my first appearance would be on TV, on my hoverbike.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=129358&page=2&highlight=steorn

 

[roger]

It doesn't.

Read DrChinese again.

Garth

What does conservation of energy have to do with it ? I don't understand.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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The Searl Effect
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=126084
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searl