I don't see where he gets that figure.
From my calculations in post #136, a gram of nickel would produce 1.3 ×1010 joules, or 13 gigajoules.
A barrel of oil is 6.1 gigajoules, so that's more like 2 barrels per gram.
Looking at another site which compares energy content of various fuels, a 1,000 MW power plant would consume about 9,000 tons of coal per day, or 40K barrels of oil, or 3 kg of U235, putting a gram of U235 at about 13 barrels of oil. A U235 fission produces more Mev of energy than the nickel fusion reaction, so it makes sense.
That's still a hell of a lot of energy.
As far as our running out of nickel, all we need is to have an energy source that will keep us going comfortably for the next century. We need to get into space.
Once we're in space, then we have lots of iron-nickel asteroids to mine. Iron-nickel meteorites tend to be 5-25% nickel. There's this cute little iron-nickel asteroid called 16 Psyche that's 200 kilometers in diameter, which can meet our needs for quite a while.
From PapaBear3625: A barrel of oil is 6.1 gigajoules, so that's more like 2 barrels per gram.
If this error on the part of Rossi is confirmed, it does not bode well for ECAT claims.
As I posted in #141, the nickel mines in Ontario are working 24/7 for the past 100 years and I’m sure they would open more if the demand was there. My greatest fear is that our top of the heap, energy industry world leaders are going to stomp on cold fusion and either regulate or tax it to death because of the effects it will have on their inability to continue manipulating energy costs. Then the men behind it will get fed up and say, “If you don’t want it, just maybe the Communists do” and take it to China. Rossi isn’t doing this for money, fame or power.
Is anyone familiar with the tower Tesla put up in NYC? Think about that idea. It’ll be coming over the horizon soon.