If electrical, and economic limitations are ignored, would it be possible for a civilization to mass produce many millions of tonnes of useful heavy elements using particle accelerators?
- Could they use protons, or hydrogen/helium in a super collider to work their way up the fusion chain to any desired element, or would they have to use heavier nuclei to begin with?
- Once the new, heavier element is created it will be a positively charged ion (lacking electrons) how can we add electrons to make the element charge neutral?
- How would the material be extracted from the collider, to be used, and free up the collider to continue making more?