Well Lou, I doubt this can be practical. Most of the energy in the D+
beam will result in heat with a little energy from fusion added.
Meanwhile, an apparatus is required to supply a very intense D+
beam. I suspect that once the D+ concentration gets too high in the
target, the enhanced effect of electrons will drop off, thereby
creating an upper limit that will be too small to be useful. The
engineering problems will determine how practical this will be, not
the physics.
Ed
On Jan 23, 2013, at 2:55 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote:
Thanks for the input, Ed
I am agnostic on the underlying physics, but am interested in whether
this approach make any type of fusion viable.
If you have the time, or interest, in some of this author's patent
applications, here are a few:
"Method of and apparatus for generating recoilless nonthermal
nuclear fusion"
http://www.google.com/patents/US20090052603
"Method Of Controlling Temperature Of Nonthermal Nuclear Fusion
Fuel In Nonthermal Nuclear Fusion"
http://www.google.com/patents/US20080107224
"Chemonuclear Fusion Reaction Generating Method and Chemonuclear
Fusion Energy Generating Apparatus"
http://www.google.com/patents/US20080112528
-- Lou Pagnucco
Edmund Storms wrote:
This paper and many others like it describe how HOT fusion is
enhanced
when it occurs in a chemical lattice. This study has no relationship
to cold fusion because the same nuclear products are not formed.
While the lattice enhances the hot fusion rate, it does so only at
very low energy where the rate is already very small. Here are some
other studies.
Ed
1. Dignan, T.G., et al., A search for neutrons from fusion
in a highly deuterated cooled palladium thin film. J. Fusion Energy,
1990. 9(4): p. 469.
2. Durocher, J.J.G., et al., A search for evidence of cold
fusion in the direct implantation of palladium and indium with
deuterium. Can. J. Phys., 1989. 67: p. 624.
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