Groundbreaking Research Used Quantum Effects and not Heat To Drive Pistons

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[@o1-preview]

10 papers down the line and it might be something practical! What a time to be alive!

[@RogueRoulette]

Is that you Dr Karoly Zsolnai-Feher?

[@adrianjameSASbury]

Space travel springs to mind.

[@brandonheaton6197]

Lol, two minute papers jokes. I am with it

[@samuelpettington2241]

Two minute papers!!!

[@omgbutterbee7978]

Hold onto your papers!

[@JamesCairney]

For those saying "this is a useless engine" you have missed the point. This isn't a design for a new type of engine or motor, it is an experiment to show that quantum systems can be used to produce a "force" that can be used. That's all, a proof of concept, how efficient it is and whether it can replace anything is not the question. It isn't a new engine, its an experiment to show quantum effects that could be useful, thats all it is.

[@creebeck]

He stated as much

[@quinnbeasley94]

The idea itself is incredible. The fact that they pulled it off leaves me speechless!

[@SLAYERSARCH]

fascinating work honestly. reminds me of when i used to visit my dads lab. i see this working in solid state.

[@aresaurelian]

[@kob8634]

BS This concept eats itself (see my other post if you want a clue as to why)

[@klocugh12]

I bet it is literally impossible to scale it to macroscopic sizes though. Quantum mechanics are weird like that, second law of thermodynamics is violated on quantum scale all the time, but never on macroscopic one.

[@quinnbeasley94]

@@klocugh12 I wouldn't discount it so fast. Stranger things have happened.

[@marknovak6498]

Power using quantum effects is just mind-blowing.

[@seanhewitt603]

Mechanical energy derived via quantum fluctuation process'... that's kind what I thought he meant. Like a tiny little internal combustion engine, without the waste gases.

[@incandescentwithrage]

​@@seanhewitt603mechanical energy (@25% efficiency) from quantum effects, the effects themselves induced by external magnetic fields and Lazer power, while cooled to near absolute zero. It's not exactly efficient. Probably

[@marknovak6498]

@incandescentwithrage charging two types of partiicals leptons to hadrons and back. Happens happens but how to dodulate between them at will.

[@SerGio-xs9ss]

Using the same principle we could raise sea water 100 m above sea level, then the falling water would operate a turbine. Free energy ? ;-) Please note, this interesting experience does not mean free energy !

[@marknovak6498]

@@SerGio-xs9ss there is no free lunch. Still, such a hypothetical discussion does move theory forward. To me, so much energy would have to be present, how would you contain it. I keep thinking some would need to escape with each transition and more than a random uncontrollable effect would be impossible. I understand in some stars there is so much energy in the form of trapped gamma rays that they become proton anti-proton pares. But that is in a ridiculously large star and I can't do the math as I only heard the paper mentioned let alone figure out how to contain that. OK, I am on a tangent. Ramble mode off.

[@dominicstoneactor]

Brilliant work Anton you take the almost inaccessible and overly scientific updates; making them accessible and available for us non-scientists!

[@monsieurLDN]

Technical*

[@kewlf00l85]

Thanks for the video! I've already used the information to craft a V1200 quantum engine and am zooming around my neighborhood at 3 femtometers an hour.

[@TheMedievalman9]

Slow down, ya maniac!

[@elfpimp1]

​@@TheMedievalman9😂👍

[@mbrackeva]

We are currently calculating your speeding ticket. It should be just over a googol€. Payment due within two weeks as per usual.

[@kirkjohns5511]

@adrianjameSASbury Yes! A rocket engine based on this effect. Bosonized fuel would be VERY compact. Injected into an expansion chamber and fermionized to cause rapid and energetic expansion then exhausted out a nozzel. 25% efficiency would be a massive improvement over present technology.

[@Foogi9000]

That's an insane improvement

[@kirkjohns5511]

Consider the possibilities for colonization of the solar system, if not the stars!

[@GrinninPig]

Here's an idea for you 💩

[@LoLaSn]

@@kirkjohns5511 If you want to colonize the stars realistically then you have many different issues to solve

[@kirkjohns5511]

@LoLaSn Many of which can be solved with practicing within the solar system. Remember, twas not so long ago that reusable rockets were considered impossible!

[@stevenkarnisky411]

Well, I have been told I have no practical value, too, but eventually I did a couple useful things. Thanks for keeping us on the cutting edge of new ideas, Anton!

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

The next step is installing the Quantum Nitro Gluon Injection system for Quantum Turbo.

[@rajukoley9249]

Than we can finally go quantum.

[@TimJamesSaunders]

Yes please

[@Foogi9000]

@@rajukoley9249 "it's quantum time"

[@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT]

Then I can finally drive the cooling fan in my quantum spintronic desktop computer.

[@markgoogolplex2572]

You mean...the turbo encabulator?

[@michaelfelzien6765]

anton I don't think we use heat to drive pistons. It's the conversion of reactants to products with a change in enthalpy that powers the piston. The pressure production from the reaction pushes the piston. dH = U + d(PV)

[@Shinyshoesz]

Huge discovery. Also lovely in its simplicity -- by just understanding the differences of state change of particles, and utilizing that for energy capture! Amazing! Thanks for covering this Anton.

[@cyberfunk3793]

What energy capture? The energy needs to come from somewhere, so it's the laser or the magnetic field that is generating the energy used to move any pistons or anything else. Otherwise we would be violating energy conservation and if that is occuring it would obviously be the largest discovery in physics for about 100 years if not more.

[@Shinyshoesz]

@@cyberfunk3793 well sure my man. I wasn't implying anything about free energy. Just capturing work from a piston which, of course, isn't 100 percent efficient. Have a lovely day. We're on the same page.

[@cyberfunk3793]

@@Shinyshoesz The issue here isn't how efficient it is as long as it's not over 100% as in able to create energy out of nothing. That is what I understood the video was implying and obviously can't be correct.

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

@cyberfunk3793, Anton said 25% efficiency.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@cyberfunk3793 you can violate conservation of momentum via negative frequency as Sir John Pendry's research has recently proven also. thanks

[@sydcrafty5498]

I love this thought trajectory ,, We are a hot being in a hot environment however the majority of this universe is cold and it's about time we harnessed this power. Great work!

[@azmanabdula]

Lava beings Imagine finding life that lives at -150C We would be molten to them

[@sydcrafty5498]

@@azmanabdula Exactly and if they were searching the universe for life we would not be in the "goldilocks" zone for them.

[@azmanabdula]

@@sydcrafty5498 Run its the Humans! Arrrgghhhh

[@remaincalm2]

Heat isn't "used" in the internal combustion engine. It's merely a by-product, unless you're talking about a steam engine where heat is critical to generate steam to drive a piston. A tank of pressurised cool air can be used to drive a piston for example, where no combustion is necessary for it to work and no heat is generated (friction aside). Sorry to nit-pick. Great video as always, it's fascinating to hear about the cutting edge of science.

[@sharkysharkerson]

This is fantastic. Obviously, it will be a long time before we see something viable (if anything at all). What I really appreciated is that it's a totally different look at producing energy and thinking about quantum dynamics than anything else I've heard. And just that mere fact will pay dividends down the line in some form ... whether with this research or as an inspiration to someone else's.

[@brandonleecross468]

SPACE! YOU CAN USE IT IN SPACE! DEVELOP a system that works outside of the ship but still remains protected. Rotating the ship will cause it to super chill and super heat per rotation, allowing the natural state of a vacuum to be used instead of actual energy to compose the super cold for the condensate. This could be great for keeping power outside of the solar system, as a system could be made for excess heat to be supplied as a replacement for solar heat to reset the process.

[@DudeStrange]

Our future is Nanomachines running on a Quantum V8

[@Jebersthechill]

Hell yea! (Free bird plays in the background)

[@bengodfrey6954]

could also be used for Audio, or any kind of signal processing for comms.

[@the80hdgaming]

Quantum audio processing... Omfg

[@tevrenendrigan1838]

Awesome video, Anton! Can't we just use those engines in space? With (an admittedly precise) foil metal umbrella (heat shield) you can access VERY cold temperatures without active cooling. Quantum engines run in the cold of space sounds pretty great. You'd still need the laser to transition between the phases, but this cuts your power demands a lot to create desired conditions.

[@pashabiceps95]

I thought the same

[@nimrodkarasz3202]

You need to propel some kind of matter out of your ship for it to accelerate and reach a good speed, this type of engine just moves a piston. Still, could be good use for the spacecrafts other needs.

[@telfordguy34uk]

It wasn't until 20 years after the introduction of the canning process that the first can opener was invented , so I'm sure someone will find a use for it . 😊

[@Bawkr]

That's so strange. So everyone was using knives & saws to eat canned goods?

[@SMGJohn]

@@Bawkr Knife was common to open cans with, it took I think another 30 or so years after the can opener that self opening cans came to be popularised.

[@telfordguy34uk]

@nicm2610 Basically, yes, 😄.

[@markhathaway9456]

@@Bawkr Chewy, eh? Yes, those were the goodl 'ol days. /s

[@thomgizziz]

No. Mechanical one yes. Manual ones were around from the time they made the cans and no it wasn't just a knife. Dumb people make up dumb things to feel like they are adding to the conversation and to get attention and then you have a bunch of other dumb people that come along and just listen and believe the new lie because it doesn't contradict anything that they know. They then spread the lie around and then people wonder how a lie got spread so far and wide... it is because you are all dumb as dirt and a few of you are little liars that use everybody else.

[@undertow2142]

Could this be coupled to the piezoelectric effect? The expansion would cause deformation of the material and push some electrons around. Would the effect work near absolute zero? I envision a structure with thousands of microcells containing helium near zero Kelvin being cycled as you described and it outputing a usable current.

[@marnig9185]

The word "piston" and the petrolheads freaking out completly😂,its a phase change mashine,thank u wonderfull Anton❤

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

Isnt the old way also a phase change engine ? Take a liquid, phase change to gas, change gas phase to 💥

[@ShawnHCorey]

I wonder if such an engine could be used in a deep space probe. If it's far from the Sun, it will be very cold and would not take much more energy to cool it to operating temperatures. If could be used for aiming cameras and antennas or even spinning gyroscopes to reorient the probe. Getting convention motors to do the same things in the temperature of deep space requires a lot of engineering. Why not use the cold rather than fight it?

[@luthorreikwolf8845]

I was thinking the same thing. Or use it for probes on the surface of Jupiter and Saturn's moons. If they have liquid methan on the surface then it should be close to proper temp

[@emmanuelmahuni8163]

I think this is the quantum drive in scifis. Remember that EMDrive a few years back that NASA tested, isn't it in the same concepts arena.

[@Corteum]

This is HUGE..... To demostrate effects like that using quantum principles...it's a massive breakthrough.

[@URBANGALLERY.PHOTOGRAPHY]

"Great Scott!" A Quantum Flux Capacitor.

[@pinchopaxtonsgreatestminds9591]

Fermion, And Boson Mechanics Fermions have resistance, and the resistance is spin like 'Battling Tops' (A game of spinning tops), and the fermions can rotate to their area of least resistance. Fermions have holes that have no resistance, but the holes are inside the spins so become polar orientated. Fermions hold their scale due to the spin being outwards from a central point. Bosons take advantage of the holes of Fermions to become scalar. Bosons are more likely to spin inwards rather than outwards like fermions. Bosons will merge their central holes into a single body that can contain the in-flow from other bosons. Hole/Filler physics with scalar spins inwards, and outwards, and their areas of least resistance.

[@anywallsocket]

The super fluid helium4 is not ‘basically ignoring the idea of gravity’, its adhesion with the surface is simply stronger than gravity.

[@Hobypyrocom]

i thought i understand english but this video proved to me that i was wrong... from whole video i understood only engine, piston, firm and booze...

[@Auroral_Anomaly]

Converting magnetic fields and lasers into energy using quantum effects sounds interesting. Just so you know, it doesn’t create unlimited energy because they wouldn’t have referred to it as ‘25%’ efficient if it did, they still have to get the energy from the laser and the surrounding area.

[@yepyep266]

The 25% was just a result of the efficiency of the setup. I still wonder if theoretically it could be net positive.

[@Auroral_Anomaly]

@@yepyep266 Nope because they wouldn’t have referred to it as 25% efficient.

[@jordanpavlic9745]

This would violate both the 2nd and 3rd law of thermo.

[@joshtrevy]

Thank you for continuing to make amazing videos Anton, you are appreciated by many many people

[@kunalsingh4418]

Would this work with a super conductor? Considering that cooper pair in super conductor are bosons. If yes, we got just one more reason to search for a room temperature super conductor, just that one discovery might completely change the world as a whole.

[@gregreilly7328]

Man masters Nature not by force, but by understanding. - Jacob Bronowski

[@rodrigocarnier8035]

"Okay this one is kinda cool". When I heard the super chill Anton saying that, I immediatelly knew some crazy shit was going on haha.

[@chlve]

This is seriously profound for what is to come on the future

[@viralsheddingzombie5324]

Photons can occupy the same space at the same time because they are essentially waves with no mass.

[@William_Borgeson]

Now that is pretty cool, my first though was this is a step towards building ZPMs (Zero Point Modules), but hey that's what you get for watching Stargate :). Thanks, Anton, very interesting, even in its infancy. Have a good one!

[@321ssteeeeeve]

If the pressure can be precise and controlled then the only limiting factor would be the tensile strength of mechanical parts (rods, crank), bearings, and whatever is connected to output shaft. Sounds like easy horsepower

[@mattphorwich]

Boson transitioning fermions do real life work!? I'm already really excited for this episode!! 💪 🧠

[@MagusArtStudios]

Quantum algorithms are super important to create a large array of examples of use cases. So this is a wonderful invention

[@jplkid14]

I wrote to my friends about using BECs for a Carnot cycle back around 2010. This is a more fleshed out variation of such a design. Very cool to see!

[@mategido]

That's absolutely mind blowing, thank you for all the news anton!

[@benjaminbeard3736]

This may be useful on the moon where helium 4 is readily available and the temperatures are cold enough you wouldnt have to dump energy into it just to get it to function.

[@Xabraxus]

So could something like the pulsating lithium 6 be used in photonic computing? For instance if you want to do calculations with light and need some areas to be opaque to light and some to be transparent, you achieve it by transitioning said area between being comprised of either boson matter or fermion matter depending on exactly when you want photons to pass through.

[@calummcallister137]

The problem is storing and retrieving the information/state of the photon and doing it fast enough for it not to be a bottleneck that prevents you realising any speed gains from using light in the first place

[@Lancin1987]

Hey Anton can you make a video about slowing down lights speed via gas and the recent study of scientists going past the speed of light with pulses? I briefly looked into it but couldn't quite understand it, maybe a video from you would help.

[@SnowmansApartment]

This has to be by far one of the most wonderful channels i have ever seen. My mind gets regularly blown :)

[@brymstoner]

i wish i could share (any of) this with my friends. but the moment i start talking about this stuff, their eyes glaze over.

[@fredmac1000]

Thank you 👏🌷🙏

[@joncrow3228]

Could the particles in this “engine” be entangled with particles in a distant identical engine, and allow the engines to be used like transistors in a computer? You wouldn’t need to measure individual particles, just if the engine is “on” or “off”, so it wouldn’t break any physics I can think of.

[@seanmadson8524]

Quantum entanglement was the first question in my mind as well. The output may be low compared to the energy used, but if you could entangle two such engines, they could be separated by a theoretically infinite distance and only require the single power source connected to one of the pair. Could be used for space exploration

[@TristynRusselo]

entanglement only entangles the spin of the particle( up vs down ), not its quantum state (fermion vs boson)

[@prangos6072]

@@TristynRusselo Prof Masahiro hotta of Tohoku university has some different opinion in this regards. You can find his papers regarding entanglement on net.

[@seanmadson8524]

@@TristynRusselo If that is so, then that's unfortunate. I thought quantum entanglement was more about mimicking movement in general, which could potentially lead to forcing them to change their quantum state in order to condense in the same way as the entangled engine. Obviously I have no idea if that's possible, but it sounds awesome to my ignorant mind

[@Draktand01]

@@TristynRusseloI feel like something like this always pops up every time someone tries to do quantum shenanigans more complex than a ”simple” quantum computer.

[@xguesswho222]

The oil industry will never let this get off the ground

[@mikecaster4612]

The cold dark reaches of space would be cold enough. Maybe a space engine to power robotic missions to the stars.

[@BladeValant546]

Switch gears, i see what you did there. A great way to swerve into that pun.

[@zachbase1124]

No, Anton, this one and all other videos from you are ALWAYS very cool. Anything from the most wonderful person Anton is ALWAYS VERY COOL!

[@foxbat888]

Does the change from Boson to Fermion absorb electromagnetic energy from the laser, so electrical energy is converted to mechanical energy? Is it more efficient than an electric motor?

[@seanmadson8524]

I believe he said the energy created is equal to about 20% of the energy used in the experiment, but he didn't give details on what function the lasers serve (unless I missed that part). This is just a proof of concept tho, it may be able to be done more efficiently in later iterations

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

it is from virtual photons as negative frequency nonlocality - a newly discovered novel force. Professor Basil J. Hiley discusses this as noncommutativity.

[@malectric]

Thanks for another extremely interesting post Anton.

[@markhathaway9456]

Energy comes from one thing hitting another: sunlight hits a solar cell, water falling hits a turbine, and so on. Heat differentials have to be very high to convert to electricity. That makes it somewhat impractical. We don't want to use a finite source of initial energy like fossil fuels. Wind and solar are low-energy, but everywhere, except there's no wind in space. If this kind of quantum engine uses differences in energy based on the type of particles in play, then you have something like solar energy: lots of it, but distributed all over the place at low energy. Somehow getting enough energy from it would be key, just like with solar & wind. It would be more like tidal forces, which also provide differences of energy level for input.

[@GeoffryGifari]

Helium-4 is a boson, but its a composite boson made of fermion components. Can it fully be described as a single boson, or are there cases where the fermion nature of its electron, proton, neutron comes up?

[@jimcurtis9052]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🙂👍

[@matthewnardin7304]

Here's whats going to go down: In 50 years we'll finally finish building the first commercial fusion power plant. Then, a year later someone will perfect the quantum engine and somehow make it easier to build and more compact than fusion.

[@shadmtmtn1603]

This would be a great source, human needs compared to the harvestable resource are ridiculous. Anyway, energy doesn't magically appear, this type of energy would certainly decrease the "free energy" around the solar system, with unknown repercussions to come... Remember how petroleum sickened our lives with lead, sulfur and other not-so-good byproducts. Depending on where the energy is coming from, such method could lead to a major disaster on the long term. Energy always comes from somewhere, and thinking mankind has mastered the issues related to its harvesting is daydreaming at best, criminal at worst. Realistically criminal, seeing coal mines collapsing in China and nuclear major events as Chernobyl and Fukushima. Not so sure we, the mankind, master our own doings. Great vid, many thanks for the quality of your work ❤👍🖖

[@Elliot_97]

Where does the energy come from? This isn’t actually generating energy is it? It’s just converting I guess whatever energy was used to produce the magnetic field and power the laser, into mechanical work, right?

[@andym4695]

RE: bosons I'm not a physicist, but I seem to remember reading there is an upper limit to how many photons can be crammed into a volume, something encountered in the high power lasers being investigated for use in some fusion reactors. In those situations, m=e/c^2 begins to rear its ugly head, and matter is created by the beam. Given the insane amounts of energy required to make one particle, this really eats into the laser's efficiency, so it's not a good thing. I learned this while asking the question, "what would happen if you piled every photon in the universe on top of each other?", but it probably bears doublechecking.

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

Thanks for the excellent walk-through explanation! You do some really fantastic videos man! Very much apprecited!

[@mr22guy]

Pretty soon we'll have to take our cars to the quantum mechanic.

[@tbobbobs7606]

This one was really cool. It's watching sci fi turn into science. Really cool.

[@kensmith5694]

You have to change the magnetic field to make it work. I'd bet that is the source of the energy. When you increase the magnetic field, the mu changes so that there is less energy in the field.

[@nathanielhellerstein5871]

Where does the energy come from?

[@-jeff-]

TY Anton for showing us an interesting alternative to horsepower.

[@arthurcamargo8416]

How efficient would it be compared to fusion? Also, I wonder if it would have applications for space exploration, especially given how cold any "engine" would seemingly need to be? I wonder if it could power satellites in the near future and then potentially starships?

[@RobRutherford]

Very cool idea.

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

Sounds a lot like cold fusion and room-temperature superconductors to me. A really cool concept (no pun intended,) but any practical use will probably be a decade away for the next half a century.

[@jessicav2031]

So it's basically performing the same function as an electric motor: a changing magnetic field is converted into mechanical motion. Except unlike an electric motor, you need an additional step which will incur additional loss. Electric motors are already >80% efficient, even into the 90s. I am not sure how this could ever be useful in a real application unless it was something where the conditions for it were already there for other reasons.

[@JamesCairney]

They are not trying to build an efficient engine or replace electric motors, this is proof of concept regarding extracting energy from quantum systems. This proves it can be done, it isn't a new design for an engine or motor, its an experiment to show an effect.

[@benhudson4014]

Thank-you for such a consise easy to understand explanation, My mind thanks you anton

[@stekons]

And then they said magic is no real... I haven't heard anything more magical than matter manipulation with magnetic fields...

[@Rospajother]

Very good explanation, thank you

[@MrLemonGrahb]

This is the first thing that I find revolutionary since a long time

[@PetraKann]

In a combustion engine the piston is not "dragged". The piston is pushed by the energy of the fuel combustion which in turn transfers its energy via a piston rod to the cam shaft. There are also orbital engines and various other designs.

[@Unmannedair]

Okay, I'm conflicted. I can see how you could use this to do work, but I cannot see how you can use this to generate energy. Any closed loop engine cycle can be turned into a closed loop jet cycle.... Even at stupendously cold temperatures. I actually do think this could be built now with current technology, but.... I don't think it could be used to generate energy. I could be mistaken, but my intuition tells me it would require more energy to switch between boson and Fermion states than what would be harvested through any mechanical or inductive process. The energy required to switch states would have to come from some stored energy source. I cannot think of such a source that could operate at those temperatures.

[@ReggieArford]

Entropy must increase; there's no such thing as a free lunch.

[@Jsmith32t]

@@ReggieArfordthe universe is the ultimate free lunch

[@harper626]

to our visitors from space, this is old news and childs play.

[@davidsmith1310]

If the amount of energy to change the magnetic field is less than the energy from the pressure where does the energy come from?

[@cyberfunk3793]

Well if that is true for the magnetic field, then it's coming from the laser or some other source. It's not creating it obviously.

[@ZeroOskul]

Wow. Amazing. And what do photovoltaic cells do?

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

We live in a continuum with photon ∆E=hf energy continuously transforming potential energy into the kinetic Eₖ=½mv² energy of matter, in the form of electrons.

[@jeromebarry1741]

It seems simple to design a practical engine. The only real problem is the fermionic Lithium-6 would leak past the piston rings the same as regular fuel does.

[@Demonic_Tang]

This is literally the most exciting science news I've seen in a very long time, it's got the potential for truly infinite energy

[@nirmalasokan1687]

No. There is no such thing as infinite energy. Anton even said that this engine has 25% energy efficiency which mean you get back only 1/4 work out of the energy you put in and that's not accounting for the energy it took to cool the substance

[@Mochimatchamocha]

@@nirmalasokan1687 off the top of my head: don’t combustionengines have around 30-40% energy efficiency? And they’re decades old tech too

[@zerotwo7319]

more efficient consumption I guess. Smaller size.

[@cyberfunk3793]

@@nirmalasokan1687 He said that in theory it could be used to create unlimited energy. But of course he is absolutely wrong and the device can't create any energy, only convert it.

[@t16205]

@@cyberfunk3793It really all depends on how much energy is spent to make the conversion. Its a facinating idea to explore. Could this conversion be forced cheap with small magnetic fields, and could it be done on a scale to really create a usable movement?

[@Android.Martian]

Interstellar Space Travel seems like an obvious use for this technology.

[@suomi422]

It could be used for rocket engine? In space where you don't have to use so much energy to cool something near absolute zero

[@christmassnow3465]

Though a good proof of concept, a quantum "battery" will be more practical than a quantum engine. After all, the energy generated by the engine has to come from somewhere. In that case, from the magnetic field and the lasers. But still it's a cool idea that is worth studying and improving.

[@GeoffryGifari]

Lets appreciate that the paper is open access

[@gordonwallin2368]

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

[@ghola82]

When anton says it's cool. You KNOW it's gonna be cool!

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

Anton, whats up, you repeate yourself at the end. Never seen you like this. Were you so excited, or was it to prevent most of these speculativ comments ? But your absolutely right, its interresting stuff thats way ahead of its time.

[@Mr.Nichan]

9:45 "...it could definitely generate unlimited energy..." I really doubt that, and I don't see how you concluded that either.

[@brightlight3520]

amazing! thank you lovely human being Anton

[@Salt_Master_Queue]

Okay, a practical use for it, assuming money isn't an issue, could be additional power production at, say, a hydroelectric power plant.

[@samuelwels2524]

Bring it into Space, this might lower the energy for cooling. Unlimited energy for space crafts? :p

[@KGTiberius]

How cold? Space is cold. Free energy for interstellar travel?

[@douglasdarling7606]

The near vacuum conditions in space would dramatically reduce the energy costs to cool the material to the necessary temperatures If combined with piezoelectric crystal effects you just might be able to generate useful amounts of energy

[@-TheUnkownUser]

Quantum effects like this open the possibilities to practical uses of quantum computing aswell.

[@russellhughes7232]

It seems like the only holdback is a good enough insulator the electricity produced could keep itself cold but what we really need is the ability to create nano machines on a macroscopic scale to utilize this

[@FreejackVesa]

So the thing that pops into my head is microcomponents for electronics. You could have a "quantum engine" to generate charge on a circuit board as needed. So it would be a component like a passive component and if manipulated could "generate" various levels of charge and that level could be changed depending on how much power is needed. This could address some of the thermal problems we are running in to as we miniaturize components further and further miniaturize. Or perhaps we could use this to really optimize electronics energy usage. Anyway, I'm just spitballing here, I have no idea if or how this would be implemented or used

[@TYMGhosT]

We’re heating up micro pistons to drive a hypothetical ground car and aerospace has mastered gravity what a time to be alive 😉

[@Roust7]

What is the temperature gradient that this experiment operates at?