Oof...this is rough.He appears to be suggestig and Alcubierre drive, with the energy derived from either vacuum-fluctuation zero-point energy, or cracking the protons in hydrogen, so it could run off water - or maybe heavy water. He seemed to be seeking a justification for the imagined attraction UFOs have to water.
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But where did they get all that energy? Sitting in that room, we attempted to imagine a holy grail of fuels, a dream engine that would burn without creating enormous thermal heat while providing an inexhaustible supply of energy.
Hal explained that if one were to try to achieve the levels of energy required to warp space-time, one might need to start with the most basic form of energy that we know of—that of the underlying roiling quantum fluctuations of empty space, so-called vacuum fluctuations.
This speculative hypothesis, yet to be practically implemented, was based on the now well-studied phenomenon of what is commonly referred to as zero-point energy. However, also discussed were alternative hypotheses.
Starting with zero-point energy, the current consensus is that you can't actually use it to generate more energy than you put in to access it.
From Wiki link aboveExternal Quote:Physicists overwhelmingly reject any possibility that the zero-point energy field can be exploited to obtain useful energy (work) or uncompensated momentum
Of course, Puthoff has dabbled in that:
From Wiki link aboveExternal Quote:Froning and Roach (2002)[266] put forward a paper that builds on the work of Puthoff, Haisch and Alcubierre.
PDF: "Inertia as a Zero-Point-Field Lorentz Force" Haisch, B.; Rueda, A.; Puthoff, H. E. (1994).
On to protons...
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I remembered a conversation I had, years prior, with another scientist. His speculation was that the hydrogen atom, or, more specifically, the proton of a hydrogen atom, could be harnessed and ultimately used for energy in a similar way as we do today with nuclear power plants. The only thing lacking was an efficient technology to crack the proton open in a useful and controlled manner to release potential energy. From there one could unlock the unimaginable energy held hidden deep within the nucleus. Although hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, it is usually in the form of a gas. However, hydrogen happens to be abundant in a very dense form that we know more commonly as liquid water, or H2O.
At the time, we already had sufficient data to imply that UAP were often encountered near bodies of water and, in some cases, appeared to be interacting with it. Liquid water seemed to be a commonality, and some data even suggested that UAP were taking water on board.
If this was true, all one had to do was remove the oxygen from the hydrogen molecule of H2O, and voila! You have a virtually unlimited supply of protons to crack open and unlock the energy hidden deep within.
I thought to myself, maybe our planet is simply a gas station? We humans have gone to war many times to protect our own resources. Maybe UAP are concerned about their planetary gas station? Were we simply a galactic Exxon pump? Recently, our own scientists on earth have identified other planets with water. Surely a species this advanced can figure out the same.
I got chills thinking about it. So many of the long-standing mysteries now made better sense to me.
The Nimitz and Roosevelt sightings happened on the open sea. In the Belgian Congo in 1952, the UAP fled the uranium mines and escaped in the direction of Lake Tanganyika, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world. And in that 1988 UAP incident on Lake Erie, as the UAP descended, the Coast Guard investigators observed "that the ice was cracking and moving abnormal amounts as the object came closer." I thought of that Tic Tac darting around a roiling, bubbling circle of the Pacific Ocean in 2004. Maybe, when the water or ice is agitated, these ships can more easily strip off and harvest the hydrogen atoms?
Elizondo, Luis. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs: the Former Head of the Program Responsible for Investigating UAPs Reveals Profound Secrets (pp. 163-164). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
- No clue why the hydrogen proton would be needed as opposed to any other proton. They're all the same. The hydrogen in water is not special compared to any other hydrogen.
- Literally zero reason an advanced species would be able to use liquid water but not water vapor to get those protons. Condensation is out of their grasp?
- Nuclear power plants use fission (splitting apart) of atoms, not splitting apart subatomic particles like protons. More importantly, you can't even get energy from splitting apart a proton. See this reddit askscience thread (the people who answer there have to have actual credentials so the responses are actual physicists). The answers are of varying complexity which is nice for getting whatever level of understanding you prefer. tldr quote: "No; we cannot split a proton, to create energy."
- Why would earth water be necessary? It's abundant elsewhere.
- Astronomers Find Largest, Oldest Mass of Water in Universe
- External Quote:Astronomers have discovered the largest and oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe — a gigantic, 12-billion-year-old cloud harboring 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.
- If they did need liquid water for whatever reason, again, Earth is not special. Extraterrestrial liquid water is water in its liquid state that naturally occurs outside Earth.
- Astronomers Find Largest, Oldest Mass of Water in Universe
- The connection between water and UFOs is just creating a connection that doesn't exist.