SDAI-Tech1 said:
The man or company that first patents it...
...successfully will be richer than Midas. Though I have a feeling it will be like radio and television where different folks will obtain patents for different aspects of the processes as the research progresses

I would think that figuring out "how" to do it is as important as "patenting" it.

I know a lot of people who are working on these things (including myself) and while I personally don't call it ZPE, because it is misleading, all of these ideas share and exploit new perspectives and techniques on converting energy.

Perhaps all the people that are working or thinking about such ideas should work together, that way practical results could be obtained sooner. Of course humans, being what they are; the question of who gets credit for what and how they would be rewarded for their participation would need to be solved.

People are starting to realize that converting energy is the name of the game. This stuff isn't your father's rocket science anymore, it's really more based in our great-grandfather's nucleonics ;-)

I agree

Forget Goddard and focus on Heisenberg, Born and Jordan...and Tesla too.

But don't forget Planck, Stark, Einstein, Bohr, Millikan , Zeeman and many many others.

Cheers
Johannes