Harry— Recent items in Sci Am are about guested at sources of energy on icy moons with underlying water. Both Jupiter and Saturn have such moons. Enceladus manages to expel steam through cracks in the ice sheet—many km thick—some without condensing the steam as ice. Lots of local heat I would think. I doubt tidal Forces can do that.
I think that nano silica is the host for LENR in the cracks of the ice sheet which may create significant pressures under tidal forces which do apparent happen on this moon. For those interested the item about Enceladus it’s in the October issue of Sci-Am, page 38. I do not consider the geothermal generation of the nano silica reported in the rings around Saturn associated with is moon is as suggested by the authors of the item. I would guess it stems from crystallization of soluble silica under pressure in the ice layer of Enceladus, not at the water-basement rock interface as suggested in the item. As an aside, I stopped reading Sci-Am 6 or 8 years ago, because I thought (and still think) the publishersy purposely avoid mention of LENR. However, some unknown person or commercial entity recently sent me a subscription, which I have not yet canceled. Bob Cook From: H LV Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2016 7:47 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Possible generation of heat from nuclear fusion in Earth’s inner core Possible generation of heat from nuclear fusion in Earth’s inner core http://www.nature.com/articles/srep37740 <<The cause and source of the heat released from Earth’s interior have not yet been determined. Some research groups have proposed that the heat is supplied by radioactive decay or by a nuclear georeactor. Here we postulate that the generation of heat is the result of three-body nuclear fusion of deuterons confined in hexagonal FeDx core-centre crystals>> Harry
