Trying to gain useful work from the Casimir force is equivalent to trying to scoop water out of the Pacific Ocean and leave a hole.

Start here though I don't go to Wikipedia for serious science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

I can find a lot of good stuff in the library at the U but try as I might using google I can't find a single article, except those from the nut brigade, claiming you can extract energy from the zero point and end up with negative energy.

Not a single peer reviewed publication seems to take your notion seriously.

DA Morgan