In reply to Eric Walker's message of Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:23:24 -0500: Hi, This is why I used "enhanced/altered" in my previous post. The weak force reactions would need to happen at the same time as the initial fusion reaction so that the neutrinos could also carry away the fusion energy as well. As I said, "not very likely". :)
>On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >If we assume 1.3 tons excess iron following Narayanaswamy, then the amount >> of energy released into the environment for this first reaction would be: >> >> 1300 kg 56Fe = 23241.288159 mols 56Fe >> 23241.288159 mols (28Si + 28Si) = 46482.576318 mols 28Si = >> 1300.4396227 kg 28Si >> 1300.4396227 kg - 1300 kg = 0.4396227 kg => 3.9e16 J >> >> That is to say, (3.9e16 J / 84 TJ = 464 "Fat Man" nuclear bombs per 24 >> hours). >> > >I didn't quite do that right. I should have gone from 28Si to 56Ni: > > 1300 kg 56Fe = 23241.288159 mols 56Fe => 23241.288159 mols 56Ni = >1300.167211 kg 56Ni > (1300.4396227 kg - 1300.167211 kg = 0.2724117 kg => 2.4e16 J) > >So that would be (2.4e16 J / 84 TJ = 285) "Fat Man" nuclear bombs per 24 >hours. > >Eric Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
