2026-10-04 — calphysics.org (Calphysics Institute, Haisch's institute site)

Reached from the jovion.com/zpe link "More on ZPE". Page: http://www.calphysics.org/zpe.html (read in Chrome).

Interested party: Haisch's own institute. The page states his views.

Findings [web: http://www.calphysics.org/zpe.html]

• The page header links "Jovion Corporation" and "U. S. Patent 7,379,286 — Quantum Vacuum Energy Extraction — Univ. of Colorado, Boulder". A French translation is offered.
• Haisch's own caveats, which bear on how claims 1-2 are framed:
• On Casimir as evidence of ZPE: "It is not necessarily true, however. It is perfectly possible to explain the Casimir effect by taking into account the quantum-induced motions of atoms in each plate and examining the retarded potential interactions". He later adds that the attribution is "debatable".
• On over-unity claims: "to date no such device has passed a rigorous, objective test".
• "Zero-point energy is not a thermal reservoir, and therefore does not suffer from the thermodynamic injunction against extracting energy from a lower temperature reservoir." He cites Cole and Puthoff (1993), Phys. Rev. E 48, 1562.
• On Forward's battery: "There is no practical application in these examples since ideally it would take just as much energy ... to separate the plates for a second cycle."
• On SED: Boyer's and Puthoff's absorption calculation treats the electron "as undergoing harmonic oscillation rather than true motion in a Coulomb potential. This is a weakness in the analysis". Cole's simulations reproduce the Schrödinger probability density, but "problems still remain such as the need to cut off the particle-field interactions to avoid autoionization".
• "As to whether zero-point energy may become a source of usable energy, this is considered extremely unlikely by most physicists ... Nevertheless, SED interpretation of the Bohr orbit (above) does suggest a way whereby energy might be extracted. Based upon this a patent has been issued and experiments have been underway at the University of Colorado".
• Bibliography of Haisch's own related papers (priority 1, the inventor's theoretical programme): Haisch, Rueda and Puthoff, "Inertia as a zero-point-field Lorentz force", Phys. Rev. A 49, 678 (1994); Rueda and Haisch, Found. Phys. 28, 1057 (1998) and Phys. Lett. A 240, 115 (1998); Haisch and Rueda, Phys. Lett. A 268, 224 (2000); Dobyns, Rueda and Haisch, Found. Phys. 30, 59 (2000); Haisch, Rueda and Dobyns, Ann. Phys. 10, 393 (2001); Rueda and Haisch, Ann. Phys. 14, 479 (2005); Ibison and Haisch, Phys. Rev. A 54, 2737 (1996); Rueda, Haisch and Cole, ApJ 445, 7 (1995); Haisch and Rueda, ApJ 488, 563 (1997); Sunahata, Rueda and Haisch, arXiv:1306.6036 (2013); Davis, Teofilo, Haisch, Puthoff, Nickisch, Rueda and Cole, STAIF 2006 p.1390 (a review of experimental concepts for studying the quantum vacuum, with Haisch as co-author).

Bearing on claims

• Claim 3: Haisch himself flags the harmonic-oscillator shortcut and the autoionization cutoff as weaknesses of the SED hydrogen result on which the patent rests.
• Claim 2: his thermodynamic position rests on Cole and Puthoff (1993).
• Lead: the STAIF-2006 review (Davis et al., with Haisch) probably describes the planned Casimir-cavity experiment (it is cited as ref. [3] in the 2012 paper). DARPA funding began in 2006 (SPAWAR grant N66001-06-1-2026).