The amount that comes from electrode consumption might be too small to account for the weight gain.
<<*Relationship Between Graphite Electrode Demand and EAF Steel Production.* The improved efficiency of electric arc furnaces has resulted in a decrease in the average rate of consumption of graphite electrodes per metric ton of steel produced in electric arc furnaces (called “*specific consumption*”). We estimate that specific consumption declined from about 2.5 kilograms of graphite electrodes per metric ton of steel produced in 2000 to about 2.1 kilograms per metric ton in 2006.>> from http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/GrafTech_International_(GTI)/Graphite_Electrodes_Electric_Arc_Furnaces Harry On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
