On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com>wrote:
> We are taking about two different phenomenon of nature. Trying to use the > same concepts and words to describe both results in confusion. Those of us > who have studied cold fusion for the last 23 years have a definition of CF > that is not up for discussion. Please try to understand what I'm telling > you. > > Cold fusion and hot fusion require different conditions to cause their > initiation, they have different nuclear products, and they result at > different rates. These are facts and not a matter of arbitrary definition. > > Cold fusion requires only a few eV for it to be initiated. In contrast, > many keV are required to cause hot fusion at the same rate. > > Cold fusion produces helium while hot fusion produces fragments of helium. > > What do you mean fragments? Isotopes? The nuclei? Hot fusion produces isotopes of helium, including 4He very occasionally from DD fusion, but commonly from DT fusion, among other products. > Cold fusion requires a solid while hot fusion occurs in plasma. Hot fusion also occurs in a solid in neutron sources where they accelerate hydrogen isotopes into palladium deuteride in commercial neutron sources.
