So, any metal will do as long as it has the correct geometry, really? Why use nickel if you can use a cheaper metal ??[snicker]
***Good question. It turns out that all this looking into nickel was due to the results over the last 2 years. Prior to that, almost all the LENR work was being done in Palladium. So, to answer your question, nickel is already cheaper and if there’s a more suitable metal coming on the horizon, the research will shift to that as well. Dr. Arata was using zirconium.
Kevmo, it’s posts like this that make my day. While LENR may be real, I’m seriously having problems with this description which would be fine if it was someone other than Brillouin making this statement but if it is them, then this is seriously techno-babble.
***I think I might agree with you on this particular point. Brillouin is working on attracting investors. That’s a step below the other dude that so many freepers had trouble with over the last 2 years.
Let me know how much you’ve invested.
***Let me know where to invest. I don’t have much, so Brillouin wouldn’t be interested. Rossi turned down $200k from a freeper more than 10 years ago. I can’t hope to catch the wave, only the ripples.
Someone on FR was going to invest in Rossi ten years ago? What were they investing in; wasn’t he doing his thermolectric generators then?
While Brillouin is looking for investors there’s already a company who has lots of money and has been doing this for many years:
Black Light Power.
www.Blacklightpower.com
They’ve spent millions and had power company contracts but they had and have the same problems everyone else is having. They have a small reactor that is putting out power, great yes? But, since we don’t have the correct theory yet (and BLP’s Mills has written a TOE that was supposed to put physics on its head) but when they try to scale it up, it doesn’t work. Mill’s theorys for free:
http://www.blacklightpower.com/theory-2/theory/
We need a valid theory that describes what’s going on so they have a basis to scale up instead of building prototype after prototype. Not that that is the wrong path, lots of inventions were the result of people experimenting; how many light bulbs did Edison build? It will be interesting to see which comes first, a scaled up reactor in the MW range or a theory that describes the action so people involved in this can build prototypes of their reactor scaled up using the new theory that doesn’t exist yet.
Physicists have got to be working on this, I wonder which colleges are working on this. Seeing as how MIT was trying to crush the original ‘Cold Fusion’ it would be funny if they are teaching this. Maybe their hostility to P&F was so they could research it on the side while publicly, they said it wasn’t a real effect?