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Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included
Chris Lee
15 May 2026, 15:07 UTC
(4 weeks ago)
Ars Technica
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This week, a company called Casimir Inc. emerged from “stealth mode” to announce that it had raised significant funding from venture capitalists willing to roll the dice on free energy. That’s right: a startup has gotten serious backing to develop sources of perpetual free energy. The people behind this fantastic new energy generator also brought us the wildly successful WTF thruster EM-drive that could supposedly directly convert electricity into a propulsive force. (Its one practical application was in the show Salvation, where it was treated with the same detailed attention to physical laws as Galaxy Quest’s Omega-13.) With that success, who are we to be skeptical?Read full article Comments
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