From: Bob Higgins
Sorry about your caffeine deficit, but 10g of Ni doesn't cost more than a barrel of oil. A kilogram of Ni powder I use was sent to me as a sample. No one would sample 100 barrels of oil. Ni is cheap. But did your sample work? :-) Not being intentionally glib, but the nickel Rossi uses is somehow special and possibly costly – who knows? The QSI nickel nanopowder which gave a small amount of gain in the Ahern experiments costs about $20/gram as I remember. The Arata nickel powders are even pricier since they are spin cast. But yes – I agree that once the best powder is found - the volume price will come down with mass production. The disappointment for many will be that the Rossi effect, if it is limited to the one isotope - may not be the slam-dunk solution to the energy crisis which we all hoped that it would be. IOW 10 grams of nickel would give the equivalent heat of about a barrel of oil. That makes the bottom line problematic, since 10 grams of nickel powder will cost more than a barrel of oil… assuming this is accurate. (operating on a caffeine deficit) Jones
