It doesn't seem like fusion, specifically, would necessarily be involved in the transmutation of elements seen in the LENR experiments. My understanding is that the processes that have recently been proposed to be at work are inverse beta decay (neutron capture), beta decay, alpha decay and spontaneous fission.
I believe that gold was formed during r-process nucleosynthesis, a process that involves neutron capture, vaguely similar to that described in theories such as Widom and Larsen's. All of that seems like a nice toolbox with which to make some interesting isotopes, at least if you had ready access to a supernova. But I am no physicist. Eric On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Bastiaan Bergman < bastiaan.berg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gold cannot be made from lead though fusion, it would require fission. > There isn't much point making gold from platinum, I presume. > > To make Cu out of Ni though the Rossi claimed scheme it would release > 3.4 GWh of heat per produced kg of Copper, that's an entirely new form > of climate pollution! Unless you use that energy to make water out of > gold of course :-)
