Jones Beene wrote:
If the energy seen by Rossi were due to P-e-P, he could make a lot more
money selling the deuterium than providing heat ;)
... hey ... come to think of it ... you don't think that the deuterium tank
seen at one time in Rossi's setup was indicating that he could be harvesting
the ash<g> ? nah...
Actually, seriously, deuterium is pretty cheap, and it will get a lot
cheaper if:
1. Cheap cold fusion energy becomes available, since most of the cost of
extracting it is for energy.
2. There is a demand for it. There will be no demand with Rossi-style
cold fusion, but if some other demand emerges, extraction technology can
easily be improved. See the pilot plant photo in my book.
Deuterium is cheap, but helium-3 is potentially worth a fortune. If they
can tune cells to crank that out, that might be fantastic! I do not
think we would need He3 reactors for ordinary applications if we have
cold fusion, but I gather that for specialized applications such as
spacecraft it would have many advantages. I do not know much about it.
- Jed
