[muawiyah]

Imagine what this is going to do to the price of copper. No need for cross country wiring. The process produces copper anyway.

And the other thing ~ Northern Canada (which almost all there is of Canada anyway) can now be subdivided, sold off, and developed.

[Liberty1970]

The amount of both copper and nickel involved is trivial (even assuming worldwide full-blown implementation of E-cat technology), compared to the amounts of each mined today. So I would not expect significant price changes in nickel or copper simply due to the use of nickel as fuel and copper as a byproduct of the E-cat reaction.

But yes, heating/cooling costs would make deserts and tundra more cost-effective to settle. The 9 months of snow on the ground would still get to most people, however.

[aNYCguy]

Imagine what this is going to do to the price of copper. No need for cross country wiring.

1. Transmission lines are mostly aluminum conductor, not copper.

2. Even if this thing produced copper, it would not produce enough to affect the price of copper.

3. This thing doesn't produce copper.