There has been a lot debate about what is usually referred to as “free” energy-energy that may supposedly, with the proper technology, be drawn straight out of the atmosphere, and in very abundant supply. The debates are about whether the stuff in fact exists or not, what it would truly cost were it to be harnessed, and if it does exist is it genuinely as abundant and efficient as it’s being made out to be by proponents of research and development into this potential alternative energy source.

When 1 hears the phrase “free energy device”, one may be hearing about 1 of many diverse concepts. This may possibly mean a device for collecting and transmitting energy from some source that orthodox science doesn’t recognize; a device which collects energy at completely no price; or an example of the legendary perpetual motion machine. Needless to say, a perpetual motion machine-a machine which drives itself, forever, once turned on, therefore needing no energy input ever once more and never running out of energy-is impossible. However, it’s not so simple to say that a new technologies for harnessing the energy “floating” within the atmosphere is impossible. New technologies replace old ones all of the time with abilities that had just been “impossible”. Harnessing the power of the atom for offering huge amounts of energy was “impossible” until the 1940s. Flying human beings were an “impossible” thing until the turn of the 20th century and also the Wright Brothers’ flight.  

The biggest claim of the proponents of “free” energy is that enormous amounts of energy can be drawn from the Zero Point Field. This is really a quantum mechanical state of matter for a defined system which is attained when the system is at the lowest feasible energy state that it could be in. This is called the “ground state” of the system. Zero Point Energy (ZPE) is occasionally referred to as “residual” energy and it was initial proposed to be usable as an option form of energy way back in 1913 by Otto Stern and Albert Einstein. It’s also referred to as “vacuum energy” in studies of quantum mechanics, and it’s supposed to represent the energy of totally empty space. This energy field within the vacuum has been likened to the froth at the base of a waterfall by 1 of the principal researchers into and proponents of Hal Puthof. Puthof also explains, the term ‘zero-point’ just means that if the universe were cooled down to absolute zero where all thermal agitation effects could be frozen out, this energy would still remain. What is not too recognized, nonetheless, even among practicing physicists, are all the implications that derive from this recognized aspect o quantum physics. However, you will find a group of physicists-myself and colleagues at a number of research labs and universities-who are examining the details, we ask such questions as whether it might be achievable to ‘mine’ this reservoir of energy for use as an alternative energy source, or whether or not this background energy field may be responsible for inertia and gravity. These questions are of interest simply because it is recognized that this energy can be manipulated, and as a result there’s the possibility that the control of this energy, and possibly inertia and gravity, may possibly yield to engineering solutions. Some progress has been made in a subcategory of this field (cavity quantum electrodynamics) with regard to controlling the emission rates of excited atoms and molecules, of interest in laser study and elsewhere.