Eric— One must look at all the mass involved, not just the Fe. Oxides and carbon mass may also be involved.
Bob Cook Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Eric Walker Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Sleeper from ICCF20 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 12, 2017, at 14:33, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: The trueism suggested is based on two- bodied interactions where large energy releases are the norm. The main difficulty in this case is not in the manner of any hypothetical reaction pathway. It is in the amount of energy implied by going from not-iron to iron. If we assume that the "excess" iron is ~ 4 tons, and we subtract this mass from the mass of the not-iron that produced it, the difference will necessarily be significant. Drop that change in mass into Einstein's equation for calculating the energy for a given mass, and the value will be an unrealistically large positive (or negative) value. Eric
