Could you extract power from the casimir effect?

maybe something piezoelectric?

They've demonstrated in a lab it's possible with enough energy you can convert virtual particles into photons, and by extension with an extreme amount of energy you could convert virtual particles into real particles. Could we reverse that equation? Could we convert actual particles, into virtual particles, and extract tons of energy? Also, what's preventing the machine from going wild and sucking up all matter in the universe converting it to virtual particles and energy?

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>>9142915
Not really. Your motor idea sounds like pic related but replacing magnetism with the the casimir effect.

Casimir effect is a force. Forces and energy are not the same thing. The same principle exists as with magnets or gravity: the energy that can be produced by letting particles pull together with the Casmir effect is equal to the energy required to pull them apart again. You can't get any net gain in energy from a closed system.

>>9144444
nice quints.
not op here, but just reading the wiki it seems repulsion and attraction are both possible. perhaps if you are feeding from the vaccum the whole time you can siphon the energy off.

kind of like how a water wheel feeds off a stream.

what we need is a casimir "breath"