Self-powering systems, vacuum energy

We reconsider both items 1 and 2 on the basis of more modem developments in particle physics and gauge field theory well after the foundations of electrodynamics were set by Maxwell. Self-powering systems readily extracting electrical energy from the vacuum to power themselves and their loads can be quickly developed whenever the scientific community will permit their research and development to be funded. 

The emerging overunity electrical power systems—including self-powered systems freely taking all their energy from the local vacuum—will produce a total revolution in transportation, electrical power systems, backup power systems, and so on [68,69]. In the process, the electrical power is obtained freely and cleanly from the vacuum, from permanent-magnet dipoles continuously replenished from the active vacuum via the giant negentropy process. 

The leading quantum electrodynamic effects to be accounted for in electronic structure calculations are the radiative corrections known as electron self-energy interaction and vacuum polarization. For the energy of electronic systems, the latter is usually small compared to the former, but only the latter can be expressed in terms of an effective additive potential to be included in the electronic structure calculations. The total vacuum polarization potential can be expanded into a double power series in the fine structure constant a and the external coupling constant Za. The lowest-order term, the Uehling potential, can be expressed as [110-112] ... 

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