I'm surprised Fusion, you haven't heard about Tesla's car that ran on radiant energy produced by a small box of components. It's mentioned quite a bit in lots of Tesla researchers writings and books.
Anyway, as my title suggests, these idiots (scientists) are going about cracking the vaacum energy egg all ass backwards. Most inventors who have done it or claim to have done it, have done so simply and elegantly ... without any monstrous piece of equipment or using super high energies to open that door. If this guy and his team are getting PetaWatt energy levels without putting anywhere near that much energy into the mix ... haven't they already somehow found a doorway that is bleeding more energy into their rig than is being input ?
The successful devices of the past have done this using resonance ... nice and simple but not necessarily easy to achieve. I'm amazed that these inventors were able to do this way back when technology was not very sophisticated but they managed to pull it off nonetheless. Garage tinkerers today are still finding new ways to build devices that either show great promise or do actually break the overunity barrier to some degree. Some are using the old tried and true methods that they have managed to figure out for themselves and have succeeded and of course some have not but they are still giving it the ol school spirit and keep trying as do I when I get time and inspiration to work on it. I haven't spent nearly enough time on my own works of late but I have tended to put things away from time to time and come back to it down the road with fresh eyes ... same thing happens with my music.
Anyway my two bits tossed in ...