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2026-10-04 — nextbigfuture.com (news blog, 2009)

Query (Google, in Chrome): "Jovion Corporation" OR "Jovion Corp" Haisch zero-point Page: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2009/02/jovion-corporation-gets-patent-for-zero.html. "Jovion Corporation Gets Patent for Zero Point Energy Extraction", Brian Wang, 3 Feb 2009 (read in Chrome).

Findings [web: URL above]

  • "NOTE: This is a funded company that is a technology spin-off of research from the University of Colorado." The article describes "Jovion Corporation of Boulder".
  • An update quoted from PESWiki, dated 4 Feb 2009: "the company has gone through $200,000 in funding, partially from POCi, as well as from DARPA and some private investors." POCi funding (the University of Colorado proof-of-concept investment programme, from context) "is contingent on the satisfactory achievement of certain scientific proof of principle milestones relating to a prototype Casimir cavity device as described in a current research grant to Dr. Garret Moddel".
  • Haisch's own statement, as reported second-hand: "Bernard Haisch, who is a co-inventor, is quick to point out that this is all purely speculative at this point and that they have not yet been able to prove anything in the laboratory. The sporadic signals they have seen can't be ruled out as experimental error. That said, the model is still 'well worth pursuing'." He called it "high risk / high gain".
  • "They are presently (as of Feb. 4, 2009) looking for major funding of around $10 million to carry out more sophisticated testing."
  • The article repeats the patent's estimates: 21-210 W and 210-2100 W (channels), and 2150-21500 W thermal for the 1 cm³ block.
  • It quotes a commenter, Francis Roarty, who links the Jovion work to BlackLight Power's "hydrino" claims (orbits below the ground state, catalysed in cavities/Raney nickel). This is related work in priority 3, and it is the commenter's interpretation.

Bearing on claims / historical record

  • Funding chain, dated: DARPA (SPAWAR grant 2006), CU POCi (by about 2008-09), private investors, about $200k spent by Feb 2009, about $10M sought. Then HUB Lab (2010-2012 contract to Jovion) and Coolescence (2019 acknowledgement).
  • In early 2009 the inventor himself said no laboratory proof existed and early signals could be error. This is consistent with the 2012 "inconclusive" verdict.
  • Lead: the PESWiki page on Jovion (original of the update), the CU Technology Transfer Office's POCi award records, and HUB Lab's identity.