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Rating:  - Excellent Introduction to Zero-Point Energy Technology
This book can change the world. Zero-point energy is little known outside the physics community or the frontier research community. Yet here is an energy source that just might be the miracle that humanity is hoping for to free us from the present energy crisis that is starving the world. Thomas Valone's great contribution is explaining in clear layman's terms the concept and availability of zero-point energy, and how to go about tapping it as an energy source. The more people that understand zero-point energy, the more support there will be for its research. Moreover for the advance reader, the book contains abundant citations into the physics journals as well as the internet to provide specialized technical information. Valone has a clear ability to communicate to both levels of readers in a fascinating manner.
Zero-point refers to absolute zero degrees (Kelvin) temperature, where all heat and radiation is absent. Yet the completely empty fabric of space, referred to as "the physical vacuum," contains a plenum of fluctuating electricity. It is like a sea of never-ending, microscopic lightning flashes at a scale much smaller than the elementary particles. These energetic fluctuations occur everywhere and interact with all elementary particles. (It might even be the source of the particles' mass/energy where the zero-point energy continuously feeds the particle much like the flow of a stream feeds a whirlpool's existence.) What is exciting is that nanotechnology can coherently interact with the zero-point fluctuations. In one chapter Valone overviews a class of devices known as "zero-bias diodes," that effectively gate the vacuum fluctuations so that they can be absorbed into useful electricity. This is the holy grail of advance zero-point energy devices, for when scaled up with millions of gates (much like is done for computer chips), it would yield a solid state energy machine with no moving parts. What is encouraging is to read how much progress has been made toward these types of devices by the standard scientific community.
A new source of energy is not the only payoff that can come from cohering zero-point energy. Novel forms of propulsion and space travel can also manifest. Valone overviews research that shows the zero-point energy could be the basis of inertia and gravity. Controlling the zero-point energy around a craft could yield propulsion much like described for UFO's where rapid acceleration can occur without causing inertial stress for the occupants. The results of zero-point energy research can yield miraculous technologies that heretofore have only been the dreams of science fiction.
Thomas Valone is a master lecturer and master author who brings to life the exciting possibilities offered by zero-point energy research. Anyone who reads his book will be inspired, and such inspiration will help accelerate the successful research and development of new technologies. With his book Thomas Valone has made a significant contribution to uplift our world.
Rating:  - Nothing Worth Reading Here
This book is poorly written, poorly illustrated and poorly formated. It fails to enlighten and, in fact, discourages one from serious study of the field. If you passed high school physics, you'll find the book too simplistic and boring, full of hearsay and references to similar crackpots. There's just no meat here. Once you get into the anti-gravity government conspirasies & consciousness chapters, you know you've wasted your money. I hope my government isn't funding this guy!
Rating: - A bright ray of hope realizing the dream of sustainable living
Zero Point Energy: The Fuel of the Future is a marvelous introduction to the concept of zero point energy and what its practical applications could mean in a future where fossil fuels become increasingly depleted. Zero point energy is the kinetic energy retained by the molecules of a substance when it is reduced to the temperature of absolute zero. "Scientists have cooled specimens to less than 1 degree Kelvin of the absolute zero point temperature. A famous experiment proving the existence of ZPE involves cooling helium to within microdegrees of absolute zero temperature... Amazingly, it will still remain a liquid! Only ZPE can account for the source of energy that is preventing helium from freezing." A handful of black-and-white diagrams illustrate this ambitious look into possibilities for taking advantage of zero point energy, couched in terms accessible to readers of all backgrounds. A bright ray of hope realizing the dream of sustainable living, highly recommended.
Rating: - Libris Horribilis
This is a mishmash of partial truths,fantasy and non sequitur. It fairly drips of conspiracy theory and is on a par with ufology and "you-can-look-it-up" diatribes about eliminating the IRS or "facts" about the Loch Ness monster. While the concept of Zero Point Energy is sound, the idea of making it do useful work is clearly not. In this case, I guess the work it does is to get readers to buy this book.
Rating:  - An Introduction to Zero Point physics
The book is an easy to read introduction to this rather new line of physics for a reader with limited knowledge in this field. As a result it should serve as an important contribution towards the spread of information on this subject among a much wider readership than pure physicists.
It has quite a few disturbing editing flaws, one to the extent that parts of a whole paragraph are obliterated by a superimposed image.
In terms of content, the list and description of Zero Point Energy capturing devices seems to be strongly biased towards those depending on the Casimir effect, and as a consequence on micro-machined "engines", dealing with dimensions of 1 micron or smaller. All of them rely to some extent on oscillation or vibration or fluctuation in the energy fields, and it seems that almost all descriptions are based on information obtained from patents lodged in the USA, with most of them still requiring further proof beyond the theoretical physics.
I hope this book will encourage many young physicists, no longer spoilt by the highly limited Heaviside/Hertz vectors erroneously taught today as "Maxwell's theory", to also explore other methods of capturing negative energy from the vacuum as by for instance utilising `asymmetrical regauging' of the local virtual particle flux of the vacuum as proposed by Tom Bearden and John Bedini.
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