Harry Veeder wrote:
Cold fusion does not seem to require the temperatures and pressures of hot
fusion, but is an NAE enough?
Well, higher temperatures do promote the reaction. Fleischmann and
Pons used to trigger a boil off reaction by heating up the cell
rapidly with a pulse of joule heating. Lasers and other methods have
also been use to trigger or enhance reactions, so perhaps it does
take some external energy to get the reaction going, but after that
it goes by itself. That is is, it "self-sustains" or as Martin
Fleischmann put it:
"Afficionados of the field of "Hot Fusion" will realise that there is
a large release of excess energy during Stage 5 at zero energy input.
The system is therefore operating under conditions which are
described as 'Ignition' in 'Hot Fusion'. It appears to us therefore
that these types of systems not only 'merit investigation' (as we
have stated in the last paragraph) but, more correctly, 'merit
frantic investigation'."
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanreplytothe.pdf
I do not know of anyone who has tried to start a cold fusion reaction
at freezing or cryogenic temperatures. It would be interesting to see
if you could.
Perhaps the critical temperature of a given NAE is more like temperature
range. When the NAE is below a certain temperature it is too cold for cold
fusion, and when it is above a certain temperature it is too hot for cold
fusion.
That's plausible.
- Jed
