From: Alain Sepeda
The article makes the buzz worldwide, as if there was many lurkers entrenched and waiting for real news (would be rational). there is already people prepared to oil the revolution... Speaking of "oil" - when you think about the big picture and look for the potential bottlenecks which are foreseeable, based upon what is in the public record - one is becoming obvious: enriching nickel in the rare isotope nickel-62 which is less than 4% of the natural metal. The other is what to do with Big Oil . to minimize obstruction. BTW - the way Rossi's patent is worded, only Ni-62 is protected. This points to the need for a National effort for optimized enrichment of the isotope, if it will really replace oil. For gas centrifuge enrichment, nickel is known to form one gaseous molecule, which is fluoride based, so that is no problem given the similarity to present mature processes for U-235. In fact, there is every likelihood that the same plants which enrich Uranium can be converted for nickel enrichment. If the access to the gas centrifuge process is going to be required for this kind of device to succeed- then this will be a major political issue in the end. This is problematic, since control of politics usually get back to wealth, and wealth gets back to Oil. The candidate who wishes to become the next in line after Obama would be wise to get on this bandwagon at an early stage. However, that candidate will probably have to stand up against Big Oil, early-on - since any expedited effort to get LENR into production will hurt that industry eventually but may depend on access to ultracentrifuge plants. May you live in interesting times. .that is going to be our collective curse, or opportunity .depending on a few political decisions soon to be on the horizon. Jones
