water fuel cell utilizes Casimir effect

[MarkE]

is the casimir effect makings an electro magnetic current bounce around?? if so could we just drop a few wire coils in the water around the places and expect to harvest current??

sorry, im just moving off from mechanical OU to,,, well this type, so my questions are just about as basic as they come :-)

The Casimir Effect occurs when two surfaces are so close together that there are enough high frequency wave modes excluded between them that there is a noticeable difference in force from the outside where no wave modes are excluded.  The resulting average force drives the surfaces towards one another, excluding even more wave modes between them until they contact each other.  So the behavior is a lot like a spring.  When the plates contact they are at a potential energy minimum.  You have to perform work to pull them back apart.