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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (30843)	3/4/1998 8:35:00 PM
From: W.F. Schwertley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35569

Mr. Jackson, That was a good rebuttal of Joe Champions PGM transmutational ideas. Posts such as yours are what makes SI worth reading. You're the Man, WFS

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (30843)	3/4/1998 9:14:00 PM
From: Richard Mazzarella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35569

Bill, IMO while I don't think we will soon see economic quantities of precious metals, you can't dismiss transmutation so easily. You discussed temperature, but that only part of the equation. The other part is pressure where the higher the pressure, the lower the temperature to overcome atomic forces. The work on cold fusion is transmutation, deuterium in palladium lattice, where the internal force in the palladium lattice provides the enormous pressure. Although cold fusion isn't a household word, it has been demonstrated. Cold fusion is transmutation. I suspect that there are other high pressure, or induced proximity mechanisms to trick elements to transmute. The issue is practical economics. Calling it a scam may be an error. As I said before, the market's pretty smart. If there is something there we will see it in the price of PGMs or gold. It's tough enough convincing people that precious metals can be harvested from desert sands, but will be even harder to convince people that we can make them from lead.