In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 11 Mar 2017 20:13:11 -0800: Hi, [snip] >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.
No, quite the reverse. Changing almost anything into Iron is exothermic, because the Iron is near the top of the binding energy curve .e.g. 44Ca+12C => 56Fe + 19.137 MeV Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
