On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 5:13 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to H LV's message of Sun, 19 Mar 2017 12:35:21 -0400: > Hi Harry, > > In a fission reactor, the neutrons are normally slowed down to thermal > temperatures before they react. This increases the reaction cross section, > and > allows the reactor to work. AFAIK the energy produced is as expected from a > conservative force. > > If the nucleosynthesis process that produced the fuel involved conservative forces than the energy produced from fissioning the fuel would be as expected from a conservative force.
Harry > [snip] > >On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:11 AM, H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> ?What is the "bond" energy of a nut and bolt? Does the amount of energy > >>> that is required to literally slam together a bolt and a nut > correspond to > >>> the energy required to screw them together? Equations are poor guides > if > >>> the situation is modeled in inaccurately. > >>> > >> > >> Ok. Can identify concretely the analogous inaccuracy in modeling that > >> occurs in applying the equation E = mc^2 to the production of 1.3 metric > >> tons of excess iron in the > >> ?? > >> Coimbatore smelting facility? > >> > >> Eric > >> > >> > >As pointed out by Robin my analogy uses the concept of a non-conservative > >force. Traditional nuclear science models nuclear forces as purely > >conservative forces, but this assumption may only be accurate at high > >energies. If non-conservative forces are at play in smelting facility then > >there would be little if any conversion of mass into energy. I guess that > >would mean the iron at the facility would be slightly more massive than > >iron born from stellar fusion. > > > >Harry > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
