On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> 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
