# Zero-Point Energy.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-point-energy/91094>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 2, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-point-energy/91094 "2001-11-02T07:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hiyruu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hiyruu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hiyruu)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-point-energy/91094/1 "2001-11-02T07:59:20Z")

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Check out this link, and tell me what you think.

[http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/103001.htm](http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/103001.htm)

These guys apparently have a patent for a ZPE-type device.

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-point-energy/91094/2 "2001-11-02T08:02:48Z")

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Somehow it will turn out to be a hoax.

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**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zero-point-energy/91094/3 "2001-11-02T13:37:08Z")

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FWIW, I did some searching at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office website. I searched both approved patents and applications for the following terms, in all fields:

Cheniere  
Bearden  
Motionless Electromagnetic Generator  
MEG  
TGEN  
transformer-generator

I couldn’t find any reference to the device the link appears to be referring to.

I’d also like to know which “friendly country” is the location of the National Materials Science Laboratory the link refers to.

Finally, someone in the field might be able to get hold of the two refereed journals mentioned – the Foundation of Physics Letter and Modern Nonlinear Optics – but I couldn’t find online sites for them in a Google search.

So, in short: \>\>yawn\<\<