Heat pumps are simple devices that take heat from one location and move it on to some other location. Refrigerators work this way. A heat pump moves heat from inside the refrigerator to the outside.
Similarly, there might be some way to move other types of energy from one place to another through the use of magnets and electric fields.
If the theory laid out in The Velcro Universe is correct, electric and magnetic fields can make matter grow bigger or smaller. Since the same theory states that matter store energy as size, we get that electric and magnetic fields would be similar to heat pumps in that they move energy from one place to another.
No actual work is performed by a static electric or magnetic field. However, anything in such a field would either grow or shrink due to the field.
The difference in size is of course immeasurably small. However, there may nevertheless be measurable effects.
The gravitational pull on an object inside an electric or magnetic field may change enough to be registered. If so, we would have the basic outline of an energy pump that we can use to produce energy directly from the environment.
A simple experiment for this would be to weigh an object while it is inside an electric or magnetic field. If there is any measurable difference, we would know that energy is in fact pumped around by such fields.
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