It may be no coincidence that BLP signed a recent deal with a billion euro Italian company (RadiciGroup) last week, and then widely publicized it in Europe (more so than the six other deals) despite it being little more than an agreement to do something in future if everyone agrees at that future time:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/BlackLight-Power-Inc-bw-1878425272.html?x=0&.v =1 It is probably no coincidence that this company is headquartered near Bologna, where Rossi has set up camp - after his second lab in the USA "caught fire". That Raney nickel can be extremely dangerous to handle :-) The license deal was probably in the works for a while, but it is safe to say that not much (if any) money changed hands, but there are always *strategic considerations*, and no doubt BLP has by now caught wind of the Rossi claims (and rumors) - and the similarity of that nickel hydride work to the BLP Patent Portfolio. and then . oh yeah, there is the aforementioned "proximity" issue. It will probably help Mills enormously to have a large company and ally in Italy, very close to where Rossi has moved his experiments, and with all of those pesky corporate lawyers on call to deal with any little problem - should Rossi try to license a similar technology. However, and in point-counter-point fairness, all may not be so hunky-dory for the Cranberry contingent. As a few of us have stated for some time, Mills' failure to deal with the nuclear aspects of his process will probably be fatal to his patent coverage in the long run, if it ever gets to court. And not just in Italy. I suspect that Mike Carrell may be one of the few 'regular' Mills' advocates on Vortex who still thinks that the Mills process does not create radioactive transmutation products after an extended period of time. Jones
