{"id":19316,"date":"2009-02-06T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2009\/02\/jovion-corporation-funding-and-science.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T05:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:30:48","slug":"jovion-corporation-funding-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2009\/02\/jovion-corporation-funding-and-science.html","title":{"rendered":"Jovion Corporation Funding and Science Status"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jovion Corporation of Menlo Park, Caifornia in partnership with the University of Colorado in Boulder aims to develop and commercialize a device for producing energy from the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. If successful, this could lead to a practical zero point energy device that would work just as well anywhere in the universe due to the constancy of this background electromagnetic radiation as it is presently understood. One proposed device would generate up to 20 kilowatts of heat from sugar cube sized device. The heat would need to be captured and converted to electricity. Micro-gap thermal photovoltaics<\/a> could match up well for this application to convert 50% or more of the heat to electricity.<\/p>\n

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As of Feb. 4, 2009, the company has gone through $200,000 in funding, partially from POCi, as well as from DARPA and some private investors. <\/p>\n

The POCi funding covers the design, construction and testing of a practical and scalable energy harvesting system. The funding 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, Professor in CU-Boulder\u2019s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an inventor of the technology. <\/p>\n

The patent is based primarily on papers published in the journal Physical Review by Hal Puthoff in 1987 and Timothy Boyer in 1975. <\/p>\n

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”. <\/p>\n

It is a “high risk \/ high gain” venture, he said, wanting to avoid the common mistake of overselling and underdelivering. <\/p>\n

They are presently (as of Feb. 4, 2009) looking for major funding of around $10 million to carry out more sophisticated testing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n