elements from seawater with Hf nuclear isomer

Minerals from ocean water is a valued technology Elements thirty times cheaper than from ore reduction create a huge range of cheaper products benefitting almost all humans

Hafnium 178 is a nuclear isomer there is a New Scientist article about the energy it produces wikipedia writes

The nuclear isomer 178m2Hf is also a source of cascades of gamma rays whose energies total 2.45 MeV per decay.[23] It is notable because it has the highest excitation energy of any comparably long-lived isomer of any element. One gram of this pure isotope could release approximately 1330 megajoules of energy, the equivalent of exploding about 317 kilograms (700 pounds) of TNT. Possible applications requiring such highly concentrated energy storage are of interest.

Microrganisms as well as yeast as well as macroscopic vegetation are published (link) as concentrating isotopes differently at different tissues Nitrogen appears to be more than 4 times concentratable this way Thus we describe a way to breed Hf178 concentrating microorganisms

Grow bacteria like thiobacillus that concentrate hafnium

then using a courduroy transfer pad make a transfer impression onto a couple more plates; grow bacteria

Use an courduroy transfer pad made from electrically conductive plastic to get a transfer image of the bacterial plate Then dry this out

place the electrically conductive pad as the electrode of a vacuum tube It will emit light with charge just like an emission spectra tube emission spectra are isotopically particular

Use a laser on the bacterial pad emission tube to ablate a tiny area of the surface with a travelling dot use a spectrometer to note the emissions spectra When the spectrometer sees higher concentrations of Hf178 you have a reference point on the plate to create a fresh living culture of isotpe purifying bacteria from one of the living culture plates

repeat until you have a bacteria adequate at concentrating hf178

Now that you have the bacteria or kelp that concentrates the nuclear isomer you grow it at the ocean

The published Nitrogen version is more than four times effective at concentrating isotopes thus if you refeed the material back to the bacteria at mere doubling you get .03 then .06 .12 .24 .5 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 parts per hundred enriched Hf178 element

You then activate the hf178 with a mild amount of medical dose x rays to produce warmth this warmth is used to crystallize out salt on repeated cycling you get a fluid that has dozens or hundreds of times the mineral concentration of seawater with minimal salt

I like the idea of using a nernst battery (link) to then do electroplating out of different minerals at slightly different charges The nernst battery uses differences of ion concentrate with the same ion to produce electricity different voltages will prefentially plate different metals

all of the energy comes from the dissolved ocean minerals plus the side products are fresh water plus radioactivity Oceanic background radioactivity is much higher than that produced from the naturally spread Hf daughter products