“same name. Different concept.”
Either way, it fails experimental verification. In order for the ether to do what you need it to do for the theory to work, it has to have certain qualities, and those qualities have been determined experimentally to not be present.
You can propose a million different kinds of ethers, but the ones you need have been proven not to exist.
Sorry, you’re hung up on my use of a word. Ignore it.
First, you won't even read a new way of approaching the issues, a way that has been around in proposition since Maxwell's quaternian equations. And you certainly cannot be up to date on propositions of an 'aether' if you aren't even familiar with the theory of ZPE (even Feynman affirmed it). So how is it that you can make or choose to make such sweeping assertions, from such a limited information position?
BTW, any patents applied for utilizing anything approaching a tap into the zpe has been classified by the Government 'in the interest of national security'. Which of course protects the oil and gas monopoly that runs our planet.
I would direct you to the source of that assertion regarding patents, but since you're not interested I won't. You have a Steven Jones scent to you.