This nickel bashing is making me look harder. Currently, 65% of nickel is being used to make stainless steel.....but the way nickel is being bashed above and beyond normality is making me look harder. I'm just NOT SEEING the "extra negative" I'm supposed to see in nickel.

Actually,...everything I've been reading gets me "nickel excited."

Below is a link that gives you a taste of new innovative uses for nickel.

http://www.insg.org/presents/Mr_Stewart_Apr10.pdf

But, the #1 article that make go woo-hoo is below in this post. I almost fell over backwards when I read this. Every day we hear about Global warming and we need to stop global warming and reduce our carbon footprint.

before I show you the link that made me do a woo hoo. You need to read this.

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/reduce-emissions/steps-the-epa-must-take-to-reduce-global-warming-emissions.html

What the EPA Must Do to Reduce Global Warming Emissions

Establish Carbon Standards for New and Existing Power Plants

Power plants are the single largest source of carbon emissions in the U.S., according to the latest data from the EPA, and reducing those emissions through carbon standards is one of the most important steps the EPA can take.

In summer 2013, President Barack Obama released a climate action plan in which he committed the EPA to deliver on these standards in an expeditious manner. Draft standards to limit carbon emissions from future power plants were issued on September 20, 2013. Draft standards for existing power plants will be issued by June 1, 2014, and finalized by June 1, 2015, according to a Presidential memorandum.

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Your probably wondering where I am going with this but now read this link:

The link below gives you a very cool research report.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21320666

PhD student Gaurav Bhaduri who is the lead author on the research paper explained that using nickel would be a far more economic option

"The beauty of a nickel catalyst is that it carries on working regardless of the pH and because of its magnetic properties it can be re-captured and re-used time and time again," he said.

"It is also very cheap, a thousand times cheaper than carbon anhydrase. And the by-product - the carbonate - is useful and not damaging to the environment."

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The more recent articles on nickel I read...the most I understand why this beautiful metal is being bashed as hard as it is.