Loading ...Harold “Sonny” White, the warp drive pioneer behind NASA’s EagleWorks Lab, just stepped out of stealth with Casimir Inc. to unveil MicroSPARC: the first battery free chip to harvest continuous electrical power straight from the quantum vacuum via the Casimir force.
The 5 mm × 5 mm device uses millions of custom microscale Casimir cavities fabricated on a substrate. Inside each cavity, two fixed conductive walls create a region of negative vacuum pressure (the well known Casimir effect). Stationary micropillars anchored in the middle act as antennas. Electrons from the cavity walls then quantum tunnel to the pillars because the interior is a lower energy “quieter” zone — and the probability of tunneling back is orders of magnitude lower. This one way “quantum ratchet” flow generates a measurable DC current with no external power source or moving parts.
https://x.com/is_OwenLewis/status/2054375024954581419
Warp Drive technology — Scotty beam me up — sounds important — computer chips that don’t require outside energy source to operate — wouldn’t that diminish demand for electricity, water etc etc — ie: massive datacentres with no environmental operating costs???
Based on May 2026 reports, Casimir Inc.’s MicroSparc quantum vacuum energy chips utilize metal plates and conductive pillars mounted on a silicon substrate to harvest energy. While the specific metal types are not explicitly detailed in the initial public releases, such MEMS/semiconductor devices often utilize conductive metals like copper, silver, or gold for conducting layers, pillars, and Casimir cavities.