--- Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > ... "barking up the wrong tree". It may not be the actual substances that are present so much as the physical structure that is important.
Structure could be important -- as well as isotope enrichment. Charcoal, almost by definition is carbon with impurities, and one of those which will be enriched is the heavy isotope of oxygen --- which is naturally enriched in all plant life, due to osmotic processes. I mention this only because in all of the carbon to iron transmutation phenomena - which Gene Mallove was enamored with - the one nuclear reaction which is always mentioned involves 18O and carbon transmuting to iron. Les Case is apparently going on a different route but who knows ?? Here is the site of an experimenter who has replicated iron transmutation (as have many including Bockris): http://www.blazelabs.com/n-transmut.asp Jones
