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@sergh
You presented energy as an absolute reality, which is completely inaccurate. Energy depends on the frame of reference, so it can be neither the iceberg nor the tip of the iceberg. If you're traveling at 1000 km/h in a spaceship, its kinetic energy relative to you is zero, while it's enormous for an observer on Earth.
Energy is simply the useful work that can be recovered from a process that reduces the state of a system when another benefits from it and the energy of the whole remains constant. And of course, we want to be on the side of the system that benefits.
Obviously, the idea of a quantum nanoprocess providing a tiny amount of energy that could be repeated in a very rapid cycle and/or integrated on a large scale to provide useful energy is a good one. However, we still need to be sure that we actually gain energy from a single nanoprocess over a single cycle, and that the system from which this energy is drawn is refilled from a source that is virtually inexhaustible on a human scale. The ZPE seems to address the second point. But I have serious doubts that the Casimr effect can provide work over a cycle, since it takes as much energy to push the plates apart as the effect provides when they approach each other.
Finally, over a fixed period of time, a resonance does not increase the total energy level involved; it is not a multiplication, but an accumulation. At each cycle a small amount of energy is added to the system, but the total energy gained will never be greater than the sum of the energy of a single cycle over the number of cycles performed. Unlike increasing the cycle rate or the number of processes, a resonance does not increase energy but stores it. Its interest is simply practical, we can thus have accumulated energy to release it in a shorter time and obtain much more power than that at the origin of the resonance, but for a much shorter time, and no more energy.
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