Sun, HP "scrap" (???)

From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> --- woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote: Gas burns much hotter...unless you're talking about *real* charcoal made from hardwoods. But you know what...gas still burns much hotter. My point was you could mess w/hydrochloric? acid and all that (wherever you'd find it - I know someone's going to point out how it could be commonly had, or maybe it's a relatively *common* thing to find)...or you could just burn off all the volatile gunk in a cheap furnace. But you'd have some steel (pins) left over. That'll melt too...at oh about 2800 degress Fahrenheit. Can't remember if gold melts at a higher or lower temperature. But at least you should be able to separate the gold from the steel. Or come to think of it maybe you could eliminate the steel before the barbecue. I'm not aware of a resistance element that'll go any higher then ~2300 degrees, that being enough to melt brass or prolly even pure copper. But the mints use magnetic induction (with some sort of coil thingee). But that requires and awful lot of juice I'm told. Like enough to light a city block...