Investigator site log: Haisch-Bernard

Runs: - 2026-10-04 (run 1): first run, no prior sites.md. Normal 10-minute cap. The browsing clock (date +%s) ran from 1791154863 to 1791155226, about 6 minutes. Chrome was the main tool. WebFetch and curl were used for PDFs and for pages that Chrome could not read.

The Investigator reports leads only. It gives no verdicts. Moddel, Haisch, Jovion and Calphysics are interested parties: their statements are their own characterizations.

Keywords tried

• Q1: Moddel Dmitriyeva "Casimir cavities" zero-point energy test gas
• Q2: "Test of zero-point energy emission from gases flowing through Casimir cavities" Physics Procedia 38
• Q3: Moddel Dmitriyeva "Extraction of zero-point energy from the vacuum" Atoms 2019 stochastic electrodynamics
• Q4: Moddel Dmitriyeva 2019 atoms7020051 "Casimir cavity" gas "radiation" conclusion SED orbital not observed
• Q5: Henriques "Study of Atomic Energy Shifts Induced by Casimir Cavities" Coimbra
• Q6: "Moddel" patent Casimir cavity "zero-point" OR "quantum vacuum" site:patents.google.com
• Q7: "Jovion Corporation" OR "Jovion Corp" Haisch zero-point
• Q8: Puthoff Little Ibison 2002 "Engineering the zero-point field" hydrogen Casimir cavity experiment molecular ground state
• Q9: Moddel Weerakkody Doroski Bartusiak "Casimir-cavity-induced conductance changes" arXiv
• Q10: "Olga Dmitriyeva" thesis University of Colorado Casimir OR "zero-point"

Keywords not yet used (for the next run): "Casimir-Lamb shift"; "Bernard Haisch" + Jovion + 2010-2024; "Jovian Corporation" (the variant spelling); US 2007/0241470; "HUB Lab" + Jovion; Coolescence + Moddel; "N66001-06-1-2026"; "Hathaway" + Casimir + Haisch; "Digital Universe Foundation" + Haisch; Calphysics + "Casimir cavity"; "Cetto" "de la Peña" Casimir cavity Lamb shift SED; Cole + Casimir cavity + hydrogen SED simulation; "POCi" University of Colorado Jovion; German and French ("Nullpunktsenergie Casimir Haisch", "énergie du point zéro Haisch Moddel"); Kotov 2025 cavity ground state Moddel.

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work

• Co-inventor's experimental test of the patent (claims 1, 2, 4): Dmitriyeva and Moddel, Physics Procedia 38, 8-17 (2012). An infrared signal was "clearly observed" for He, Ar, N2 and Xe through 0.1-0.4 µm polycarbonate pores. It was about 1000x below the ZPE prediction. The gas and coating trends were opposite to the prediction (He above Xe, uncoated above gold). Joule-Thomson, friction, adsorption and turbulence did not fully explain it. Measured power in (about 2x10^-5 W) exceeded the detected power out. Authors: "ZP energy extraction ... remains a possible explanation". [web: https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/moddel/media/59] Saved in research/files/.
• Co-inventor's 2019 assessment (claims 2, 3): Moddel and Dmitriyeva, Atoms 7, 51 (2019). The gas-flow SED scheme "does not appear to violate" thermodynamic principles, unlike nonlinear-rectifier and mechanical Casimir schemes. Open issues the authors raise themselves: detailed balance and quasi-equilibrium, and a "potential hill" on cavity exit. Results "tantalizing but ... inconclusive". New Fig. 9: the 0.1 µm pores gave the largest He signal. Moddel declares a Jovion stockholding. [web: https://scholar.colorado.edu/downloads/6395w823g]
• Haisch's own caveats (claims 2, 3): on calphysics.org he calls the harmonic-oscillator basis of the SED Bohr-radius result "a weakness", notes the autoionization cutoff problem, and calls the Casimir-ZPE attribution "debatable". In 2009 he was quoted as saying they had "not yet been able to prove anything in the laboratory" and that sporadic signals "can't be ruled out as experimental error". [web: http://www.calphysics.org/zpe.html; https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2009/02/jovion-corporation-gets-patent-for-zero.html]
• Later Moddel work on a different mechanism (related to claims 1-2): Casimir-cavity MIM devices, Phys. Rev. Research 3, L022007 (2021) and Symmetry 13, 517 (2021). Patent family US 11,133,758 B2 / WO2020229944A1 / EP3966925A1 / CN / BR / MX, priority 2019-05-10, with projected (not measured) "up to 250 W" for a 10 cm × 10 cm array. [web]
• Project document date: the "Haisch_abstractSSE10" is probably the Society for Scientific Exploration 2010 meeting (Boulder, 10-12 June 2010), where Dmitriyeva and Moddel presented the companion test abstract. This is an inference, not stated in either document.
• Patent priority 2004-09-27 (a provisional application not in the project folder). The patent was assigned to the Regents of the University of Colorado on 2008-06-10. [web: Google Patents]

2. Supporting information by others

• Henriques 2014 MSc, University of Coimbra: an independent SED simulation of hydrogen in a cavity (2-D and 3-D) plus a gas-through-Al-coated-nanopore experiment with UV/visible spectroscopy. "Some evidence of radiation" for Xe; nothing above noise with pre-excited Xe. The detector (PMT) was judged too insensitive. [web: https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/28082]. Thesis PDF to obtain.
• Puthoff, Little and Ibison (2002): a synchrotron test of Casimir-cavity ground-state shifts, "so far without success". [web: arXiv:1012.5264]
• Hathaway Research International: a project "Energy Extraction from Casimir Cavities" with Haisch and Moddel. No results found. [web: hathawayresearch.com via WebFetch]
• Cetto and de la Peña (1988), Phys. Scr. T21, 27: an SED analysis cited by Moddel and Dmitriyeva as showing that "under particular simplifying assumptions this shift is not predicted". This is evidence bearing against claim 3 from within SED. Not yet read.

3. Closely related work

• Forward (1984) is already in the project. Cole and Puthoff, "Extracting energy and heat from the vacuum", Phys. Rev. E 48, 1562 (1993), is Haisch's cited basis for the no-thermodynamic-violation position.
• Third-party patents citing Haisch-Moddel: US20190207537A1 (piezoelectric zero-point power), US20180059704A1 (ZPE magnetic battery), US20230208321A1 (quantized-inertia thrust).
• BlackLight Power "hydrino" (orbits below the ground state). A 2009 commenter linked it to the Jovion work; that link is his characterization.
• Kotov et al. (2025), a mainstream Casimir-Lifshitz theory of cavity modification of ground-state properties that cites Moddel et al. (2021). Its position is unknown.

4. Historical record (including absence of evidence)

• Funding chain: DARPA via SPAWAR grant N66001-06-1-2026 (from 2006); CU proof-of-concept investment (POCi), conditional on milestones; private investors (about $200k by Feb 2009; about $10M sought); HUB Lab contract to Jovion (2010-2012); Coolescence (acknowledged 2019).
• Absence of evidence (the record goes quiet): after the 2012 paper, no further gas-flow experiment by the Colorado group was found. The 2019 paper reuses 2010-2012 data. Jovion's 2023 website has an empty "Progress" link and no news. The HRI project shows no results. The patent's status was not confirmed (Google shows it "Active" to 2026-11-30, but an unresolved "2011-12" legal event may be a maintenance-fee lapse). Competing explanations to weigh: (a) The effect did not hold up and the work was dropped quietly. For: Haisch's 2009 caution, the 2012 and 2019 "inconclusive" wording, and the group's move to MIM devices. Against: no negative report has been published. (b) Funding ran out. For: the $10M ask in 2009 with no record of it being raised. Against: none found. (c) Trade secrecy within Jovion or HRI. For: the company still promotes the approach (2023) and HRI does private contract work. Against: no new patents by Jovion found. (d) The idea moved into Moddel's MIM-device line under a new mechanism. For: the same group, same Casimir-cavity premise, new patents from 2019. Records that would decide between them: USPTO maintenance-fee and assignment records; DTIC or DARPA final report for N66001-06-1-2026; HRI report; Jovion corporate filings; CU Technology Transfer and POCi records.
• 2009 LANL CNLS Casimir workshop abstract (image PDF saved, not yet OCR'd).

Files saved (research/files/)

• Dmitriyeva-Moddel-test-ZPE-emission-Casimir-cavities.pdf (SSE 2010 abstract)
• Dmitriyeva-Moddel-2012-PhysicsProcedia38.pdf
• Moddel-Dmitriyeva-2019-Atoms7-51.pdf
• Moddel-Dmitriyeva-arXiv0910.5893-latest-version.pdf (same text as the 2019 paper)
• Dmitriyeva-2012-PhD-thesis-CU.pdf (Appendix A reprints the 2012 paper)
• Puthoff-Little-Ibison-2002-JBIS-arXiv1012.5264.pdf
• LANL-CNLS-2009-Casimir-Force-Control-abstracts.pdf (image only)