My apologies, I quoted the wrong person. I meant to respond to this comment from Bob:
The mass differential between 2 Si-28 (27.9769) and Fe-56 at a.m. of > 55.93494 is not very much. It may be that Si fusion is involved in the > Indian steel plant. > Eric On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If transmutation is always accompanied by meson production, then the area >> around the electric furnace might have an elevated background radiation >> profile. Four tone of transmutation would imply a huge number of muons >> produced on a daily basis. >> > > If you go this route, you will have to address Narayanaswamy's own > admission that [1]: > > A simple calculation shows (see Appendix A) that corresponding to 4.27 >> tons of metal transmutation [comprising the production of both silicon and >> iron], the power generated should have been the equivalent of the total >> thermal power generated by a couple of thousand 1 GWe nuclear power >> stations in one 24 hr day! This may truly be termed as an astronomical >> number! Thus if indeed the Silcal transmutation claims are confirmed it >> would clearly point to the operation of new Science which is even more >> bizarre than claimed by most other LENR experiments! > > > 2000 GWe * 24 hours = 1.7e17 J. By comparison, the bomb that fell on > Nagasaki in 1945 had about (84 TJ = 8.4e13 J) [2]. That means that if > Narayanaswamy's calculation in Appendix A is correct, the energy output in > a 24-hour period would have been equivalent to (1.7e17 J / 8.4e13 J = 2023 > "Fat Man" bombs), or 1.4 nuclear bombs per minute. All in a smelting > facility in Coimbatore, India, that was very successful and made a decent > profit. > > This possibility takes us into the hoary but cute Vortex violation-of-COE > discussions. > > Eric > > > [1] https://www.lenr-forum.com/attachment/951-narayanaswamy-corrected- > extended-abstract-17th-sept-2016-pdf/ > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent >
