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To: Andeveron who wrote (104260)	1/20/2014 3:10:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217619

As TJ shows with his gold mining activity, De Beers has nothing to do with the price of gold. Anyone can get into the game and will if they can turn $5 into $10 by excavating and washing dirt. There are megatons of gold on Earth, but it's dispersed. Nevertheless, it's assuredly cheaper to dig more gold on Earth than dig it on the Moon or Mars or some fly-by asteroid. Most likely is my transmutation process of melding iron into gold and platinum as part of a power station producing heat and electricity for a nearby city. Gold can be made from mercury or lead or even iron though that's a bit more difficult. Knock a proton out of mercury or 3 out of lead, and hey presto, gold. If you overshoot and knock 2 out of mercury or 4 out of lead, you get platinum, which is no bad thing so be confident. With iron, just glue 3 together and top up with a proton and bingo, more platinum. Make a mistake by adding two protons and no worries, you'll get more gold. There is no shortage of iron, lead, mercury, or hydrogen to act as feedstocks. The process can be part of a power station with the excess heat used to drive steam turbines for electricity with waste heat used for lower temperature heating. The trick is to add the protons together, or strip them away, by getting their wave functions perfectly timed so they just pop out with a bit of extra energy added, or slip in, depending on what's wanted. You can cheat by using anti-matter protons to neutralize one, generating bonus heat. It's a probabilistic business and works a bit like cold fusion [invented by Stanley Pons and Marty Fleischmann though cold fusion never amounted to much because they didn't get their technique right - they just bunged hydrogens together and hoped for the best]. Mqurice