In reply to Kevin O'Malley's message of Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:18:56 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Nickel/Palladium Nickel and Palladium come to mind when thinking of long >term cold fusion investments. Unfortunately, nickel is the most abundant >material in the earths crust, a change in the demand of nickel would not >affect the price drastically.
This is completely wrong. Crustal elemental abundances are (according to the figures I have): Oxygen 466000 ppm Silicon 267700 ppm Aluminium 84100 ppm Iron 70700 ppm Calcium 52900 ppm . . . Nickel 105 ppm I suspect that this article is confusing the planetary abundance with the crustal abundance. The former includes the Ni/Fe core of the planet, however this is not accessible. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
