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I think "Free Energy" stands for "Zero Point Energy" (in most cases when it's seriously discussed), the energy already present in the vacuum. Free Energy is a misnomer because it implies a violation of conservation of energy.
 
technomaget said:
I think "Free Energy" stands for "Zero Point Energy" (in most cases when it's seriously discussed), the energy already present in the vacuum. Free Energy is a misnomer because it implies a violation of conservation of energy.
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Not being sarcastic but I always took 'free energy' in this sense as energy that would be virtually 'free' in cost terms because you are tapping into a source without having to put anything 'in' to the system, such as burning fuel or capturing kinetic energy from something moving?
 
I'm not sure why it was called that, but you would still need to use energy (i.e. there would be some cost and it wouldn't be free) to get energy. You just get much more than you put in. Maybe it should be called "Cheap Energy", "Inexpensive Energy" or "Low Cost Energy"?

It may have been called free energy in reference to perpetual motion machines that would continuously work without any additional energy added to the system (i.e. where no energy is lost and efficiency is 100%). I think the term "Free Energy" is a carry-over from that usage.
 
It seems to me that "Free Energy" is a term that can refer to literally limitless energy once a certain process or machine is started. The perpetual motion machine is a machine that continues to move and provide energy with 100% efficiency (think of a pendulum that never stops).

Zero point energy is the energy stored in the vacuum of space that if tapped, would provide enormous amounts of energy. The zero point is the point of the pendulum at the bottom when it looks like it shouldn't have any energy at all but actually has kinetic energy transferred from its potential energy which it has at the top of the pendulum, and when it has no motion.

This is all of the top of my head, so I may be wrong on several points here. Anyone who knows better is welcome to correct me...
 
It's good to see people first get a grip on the idea of what we're talking about when we refer to "free energy". Indeed @technomaget is correct with respect to the article in the OP that what we're talking about is the hypothetical zero-point energy ( Wikipedia article ). We recently brushed past this subject while talking about the nature of consciousness in the Philosophy, Science, and the Unexplained thread when we were discussing virtual particles. See the video in this post for an example: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/threads/philosophy-science-and-the-unexplained.14196/page-5#post-173730

In much more general terms, I don't think any energy is completely free. It's going to require resources to harness and distribute no matter where it comes from. Something a few here might be interested in is a kind of electrical energy that is available for anyone who has some modest resources to tap into it. There is a natural electrical differential between the Earth and the sky. Most of the time we don't notice it until an electrical storm, but even when there's no storm, there's still a potential, and generally speaking the higher the tower, the larger the potential is. However radio towers are typically grounded which shunts the differential directly into the ground. However if a tower were isolated from ground and the circuit run through a collection system, hypothetically the naturally occurring energy could be stored and redirected into the power grid. Of course this presents a number of electrical engineering challenges, but none beyond our technological capability.
 
That Casimir Effect as repeatedly verified and real is sobering. Setting aside for a moment the question of whether zero point energy has been harnessed and hidden away, a couple of thoughts:

-Energy is conserved. What would the long term effects of unlimited energy release (in the form of heat, for instance) have on the planet ? This could make the current global warming scenario look insignificant by comparison.

-Mankind has yet to discover a source of energy he has not also utilized as a weapon. Imagine weapons of mass destruction not dependent upon hard to manufacture exotic materials.

Perhaps free energy is here and we are not yet mature enough to handle it.
 
I think it will be shown that the conservation of energy law versus free energy/ ZPE will be equated with Newtonian physics versus General Relativity. One will eventually compliment each other.
 
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