OK, there's a conspiracy theory I've heard since I was young. Some guy invented a new carburetor that gave cars 300mpg or someone else invented a tesla-based machine that produced free energy and the government suppressed it. Up until now, I've pretty much laughed at these CT's. The few I researched were readily apparent as hoaxes.

So there I was just now researching... you guessed it.... energy from nothing. Except this time it doesn't appear to be a hoax. Kind of like perpetual motion machines are no longer a hoax. This is what quantum engineering does for you. It's early days and the this site is pretty sketchy itself, but some of what it's talking about I already knew to be true. I need to read more but I suspect that a Casimir based vacuum energy "pump" is at least theoretically feasible if it hasn't already been built.

So first, the run-up. Please note that this is early days on my looking into this and it isn't the first time I've ran across splashy media products and labs from India. Consider this all in the "maybe" category for now. As I was writing this I couldn't help but think of the "zero point energy module" from the TV series, "Stargate Atlantis". Happily, the scientists also seem to call it zero point energy so score one for science fiction!

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“Space is actually not empty and it’s full of energy…The energy in space is not trivial there’s a lot of it and we can actually calculate how much energy there is in that space and that reality might actually come out of it. Everything we see is actually emerging from that space.”
-- Nassim Haramein -- TEDx talk

OK, we've know that for a while. But you add in something called the Casimir effect and you get...

“Relatively recent proposals have been made in the literature for extracting energy and heat from electromagnetic zero-point radiation via the use of the Casimir force. The basic thermodynamics involved in these proposals is analyzed and clarified here, with the conclusion that yes, in principle, these proposals are correct.”
-- “Extracting Energy and Heat from the Vacuum” in Physical Review by Daniel C. Cole

OK neat. We're actually building zero point modules straight out of Stargate and, allegedly, they work. Then I ran across this.

The inventions Secrecy Act
Passed in 1951, this act allows the US government to bury any patents it thinks might jeopardize national security. As one might expect, most of the things on the list are tightly tied to military technologies. What you might not expect unless you're as cynical as me is the guidelines about energy.

“The 1971 list indicates that patents for solar photovoltaic generators were subject to review and possible restriction if the photovoltaics were more than 20% efficient. Energy conversion systems were likewise subject to review and possible restriction if they offered conversion efficiencies in ‘excess of 70-80%.'”

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see where they are going there. Those sorts of technologies are a significant threat to the global elite challenging the petrodollar directly. I'll just leave you with this little tidbit.

“There are technologies presently being repressed, that are real and could replace the present fossil fuel usage with appropriate investment in research necessary to bring them online… There are scientists ready to testify at a Senate hearing on the realities of these issues.”
-- Theodor C. Loder, III, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at the University of New Hampshire

If that is true, then that casts an entirely new light on global warming. Suddenly this went from a problem that the US government was doing nothing about to a problem it is directly responsible for planning and creating.