Element Alchemy

Prerequisites:
Required Theory:
Required or Contributory Development:
  • 1
  • 2
Contributory or Required Observations:
  • Observation of Element Alchemy in action or its results.
  • 2


Description:
    Element Alchemy is th eability to turn one element into another.  The very lowest levels of this technology can be achieved with only nuclear physics (real-world nuclear power plants routinely turn nonradioactive Uranium-238 into the radioactive nuclear fuel Plutonium-239, for example) but to make the process cheap and quick enough for mass quanitities requires more.  It may prove possible to create elements which don't exist naturally this way.
    Improvements to Element Alchemy (dev) decrease the cost of conversion and increase the speed at which conversion can take place.

Provides:
Allows Theory:
Allows Development:
  • Element Alchemy (dev)
  • Supercompressive Solids (dev) (contributes)
  • Supertensile Solids (dev) (contributes)
Allows Technology:
  • Element Alchemy Infrastructure
  • Element Alchemy Ship Device

©2006 Steven Rehn