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I've come across the topic of free energy or zero point energy from activist sites. Supposedly, Nikola Tesla made the original device only to be shut down by the federal government and JP Morgan. As a lay person, I can't imagine how this concept of free energy would work, and am wondering if anyone with a qualified opinion on energy has even heard of free energy or zero point energy, is this another conspiracy theory?

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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. In other words you can't get more energy out than you put in. The term 'zero point energy' is used a lot by crackpots and fraudsters because it sounds good. The same goes for 'over unity' and other perpetual motion ideas. The world is desperate for energy and we are rapidly heading towards an energy crisis. If someone discovered a legitimate source of virtually unlimited energy the world's governments would do their utmost to see it put into practice.

In quantum theory, zero-point energy is a minimum energy below which a thermodynamic system can never go. Thus according to the standard quantum-theoretic viewpoint, none of this energy can be withdrawn without altering the system to a different form in which the system has a lower zero-point energy.

For example helium remains liquid at atmospheric pressure even at absolute zero. Zero point energy prevents it turning into a solid (solids have less energy than liquids). You would have to fundamentally change the helium's nature to make it freeze and release some of that energy.

It helps if I understand what zero point energy is lol. Those YouTube videos looked a little too good to be true. So from what I understand, ZPE is found only in the vaccum of space as fluctuating EM waves, and not enough is understood about it to even consider energy extraction.

As a rule of thumb, when people start invoking Tesla they are probably cranks.

There are two cases I have heard of where people have reduced their home electricity bills with simple power-scavengers, and been prosecuted for their pains. The first was from BBC long-wave Crystal Palace and he was found guilty of not owning a wireless licence. The more recent case was from BBC Droitwich and he was found guilty of stealing energy, the laws having been updated (I think primarily to protect the telephone network from power-theft).

Holding a fluorescent tube near a power-line or a transmitter demonstrates the principle, without much risk of prosecution. Any competent charlatan could easily fool quite sceptical and intelligent onlookers that they have discovered some other source of energy.

There is a web site on the internet - which provides plans for putting up a antenna above the roof and running a piece of wire to some type of Tesla coil and you can build a circuit and it will make enough power - from the static electric from radio waves - to charge a cell phone..

That is one for instance of getting something for nothing.

Another is - I worked for a electric company changing meters and inspecting poles.
I once observed where someone knew the voltage of the high power lines going from the power plant.
They climbed the poles and strung a length of copper wire between the poles on insulators and ran it down into their home - without any electric meter and got free electric.

The electric company knows if we put X amount of mega watts in one end, X amount of mega watts comes out the other.
When there is a loss - they have to figure out where it is going.
Broken insulator, poor conductor etc.
When the guy got caught - it cost him $100,000 for theft of service. They not only charged him for what he stole - which was pennies - but what they figured they had lost over the life of the tower - since they could not determine when he installed the wire.
So in the long run - he too didn't get anything for free.

Getting something for free.

A radio or television station transmitter / antenna works on just that principal.

You inject X amount of watts into the antenna, it radiates and the customer puts up a TV antenna and receives X amount of micro-volts of power.
Antenna's are a electrostaticlly charged device.

Here is the neat part -
All signals reduce at the square of the distance away.
1/2 - 1/4 - 1/5 - 1/6 - 1/8 until finally the signal drops down into the noise and is lost forever.
But - lets say there is .0008 microvolts of power at your antenna for CH 6.
Regardless of how many other people has a antenna up in the air, or how many people are tuned to channel 6 - each antenna will have .0008 micro volts on it.

In a city of one million people in the 1970's - that was a lot of antenna's.