Found this on msn.com (nice surprise from a MSM site, eh!?): How harnessing zero-point energy could power the world forever (from Crushin' It)
Imagine if we could collect the energy out of thin air. And I mean it quite literally.You know how you were taught that a vacuum is nothing but empty space? That isn't exactly true, at least in the world of quantum mechanics. If you dive deeper, below the level of molecules, atoms, electrons and protons, and into the world of the tiniest subatomic particles, like quarks, you'll see that even the vacuum of space can never be truly empty. It's filled with particles that randomly pop in and out of existence.But the exciting thing about those these fluctuating particles is that they generate energy that we could, hypothetically, put to good use.
How could we harness this vacuum energy? How would taming a source of
unlimited power change us? And why could this be dangerous for the
planet?
