The amount of energy required to agitate the vacuum condition is enormous. Even with harnessing the virtual photons at relatively high efficiency, it seems like a power loss.
Yup, that’s the problem. All previous attempts to harvest, or describe a way to harvest, the so-called zero point energy are viewed as pseudoscience because they just don’t work. Not even close. Hoping this one is a little different.
The law of the “learning curve” suggests we will overcome that difficulty sooner rather than later.