  The model considered here is the `jellium' model in which there is a uniform,
fixed background with charge density $-e\rho$ in a large volume $V$ and in
which $N=\rho V$ particles of electric charge $+e$ and mass $m$ move --- the
whole system being neutral. In 1961 Foldy used Bogolubov's 1947 method to
investigate the ground state energy of this system for bosonic particles in the
large $\rho$ limit. He found that the energy per particle is $-0.402 r_s^{-3/4}
{me^4}/{\hbar^2}$ in this limit, where $r_s=(3/4\pi \rho)^{1/3}e^2m/\hbar^2$.
Here we prove that this formula is correct, thereby validating, for the first
time, at least one aspect of Bogolubov's pairing theory of the Bose gas
