4 tons of carbon electrodes would be a production problem. Plus the resulting steel would have strange specifications—welding may be impossible— Bob cook
Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Jones Beene Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:44 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Sleeper from ICCF20 Eric, Converting anything into iron would be endothermic, and there is an electric arc to supply power, but hardly enough for transmutation ... of even a few ounces. What they may overlooked is a monoclinic iron carbide which is 40% carbon ... and which is a good and even an expected candidate for the so-called "excess"... since they do not specify how much of the carbon electrode has been lost. Eric Walker wrote: Jones Beene wrote: "The daily input of Si and Fe was 20.479 tons at his smelting plant, and the output was 24.75 tons. There was a daily excess of 4.27 tons of iron and silica." A process that would produce 4 tons of iron from another element in one day would probably imply the release (or consumption) of an astounding amount of energy. When a nuclear bomb explodes, only a relatively small amount of the fissile material is converted to other elements. Eric
