Don't be insufferable with these terms. Do you really want to argue cheap and free? Even if we literally got energy out of nothing, we would still need to invest in distribution and maintenance or whatever. Nothing is free, if you take in the right (large) context. We're back to that stupid ass term of 'free energy' that I've been trying to avoid and you keep forcing on me. I thought we were past that already, stupid me for thinking so. To be completely honest I didn't even know the term 'free energy' was used to something so ridiculous before this thread. It's like describing a flat object with the term 'earth-like shape'.
Sorry vibe, but you can't change the term 'free energy' to mean something else.
Currently it's well known among the scientific and engineering communities for meaning "energy from nothing". Completely free, like perpetual motion machines.
It's like saying the term lemon now refers to bananas, they are both fruit and yellow, so it's reasonable to assume they are close enough to do that.
However, the terms banana and lemon are both recognisable to the fruit community as seperate, but similar fruits: the banana and the lemon.