I have heard about a machine that consists about a rotor and plate surrounding this rotor. The distance between plate and rotor is very very small, because of the casimir effect that occurs on very very closed two plates. If the rotor-surrounding plate is charged electrostatical, the rotor begins to move and it may be easy to generate electricity with it. The reason of the Rotation of this rotor is because of the electrohydrodynamic Forces that arise in this slit.
Is such a machine really realizable? If yes, why nobody has used it?
Unfortunately the Casimir interaction between two (metallic or dielectric) plates cannot give any energy to a motor, as well as a charged condenser cannot do it too. If you have a van der Waals force between the plates (as it is assumed in one of the possibilities of Casimir effect) or a Coulomb force (classical electrostatics). Thus they are conservative and therefore their mechanical energy associated is conserved.
If you interpret the Casimir effect as a manifestation of the fundamental state of Quantum Electrodynamic field, then even there is infinite energy associated to it because there are infinite harmonic oscillators, however this is the minimum energy reached in QED and therefore imposible to have another energy state that can take it.
I hope it can helps.
I have found one electrostatic generator claim on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGPnxLSgnUI
And it is also supposedly disproven here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp9cFrZWneI
So, that may answer some questions about charged electrostatic plates.
However, if you are still interested in perpetual motion type devices, I recommend some of the physics demonstrated at: https://www.quora.com/Have-there-been-any-actual-demonstrations-of-over-unity
But my response is yes.
View my project.perpetual motion machine is possible.
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