content: if there really use to be free energy from the ether  We get energy from the ether right now; think wind turbines and hydroelectric dams. It's just that no one has found a way, that we know of, to extract that energy absent some form of kinetic input.  That might sound confusing since most people think that in the above two examples there's a direct conversion of "energy" from the air or water into electricity. But you can't plug your computer into a running stream. Nothing is lost or taken or converted from air or water, it's only used to turn a flywheel and generate electricity (pull energy from) the ether.