True, but the $0.04/gram is, roughly, what you get when you work from Rossi's statements (i.e. 100g and $10 per load, 10% cost is "enhancement" of the catalyst, we need 30% of the "rare" isotopes in order to have enough material to make an ash with 30% Copper).
The point is that it's too low a cost to allow for any significant processing, especially if Rossi is going to have 1 million E-Cats per year, needing refueling every 6 months. No matter how you look at it, if the conversion is from 62Ni and 64Ni into 63Cu and 65Cu, you need to enrich the 62Ni from ~3.5% to almost 25%, and the 64Ni from ~0.9% to 11%, just to end up with 30% Copper containing "natural" isotopic ratios. I certainly understand why the $30,000/g price for very pure, single isotopic material is more than what is needed by Rossi, but a few pennies per gram seems low for any processing of this sort. ________________________________ From: Daniel Rocha <danieldi...@gmail.com> To: John Milstone <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Ni-64 enrichment Why to 0.04$? To 100$ would be a great thing too.
