[badgerlandjim]

"Reported to be from Rossi: 1 g nickel would generate an energy amount equivalent to that produced by 517 tons oil 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."

I agree that doesn't look good. But here is another nugget gleaned from the patent application:

[0060] A practical embodiment of the inventive apparatus, installed on Oct. 16, 2007, is at present perfectly operating 24 hours per day, and provides an amount of heat sufficient to heat the factory of the Company EON of via Carlo Ragazzi 18, at Bondeno (Province of Ferrara).

Rossi seems to be saying that he has been heating a factory in Italy going on 4 years. Hell, he even gives the factory name and address. Seems like it should be an easy matter for the naysayers to investigate this. Why have they not ripped him to shreds on this? - Jim

[Wonder Warthog]

""If this error on the part of Rossi is confirmed, it does not bode well for ECAT claims."

I wouldn't read too much into it. Remember, with Rossi (and many of the stories about his findings), we are dealing with people (including Rossi) for whom English isn't the native language. Add to that that the journalists reporting in Italian have to be translated into English, and most journalists (and likely most of their translators) are probably NOT well grounded in science....errors are guaranteed to show up in the final English-language articles.

Which is another reason that it is essential to study multiple reports to get a reasonable idea of what is going on.