From: Bob Cook
Ø What about clusters of H nuclei--like Coopers pairs--moving about in the same lattice site. He is using a different meaning for clusters, it seems. More like a small condensate. For instance, and as I understand it - on occasion there are naturally as a result of statistics, three clusters in a Li-6 nucleus, and they look and act like 3 separate but coherent deuterons. Therefore these resemble a condensate of 3 deuterons which then transition back to the normal nucleus where they spend 99.99+ percent of their time. The short-lived cluster only happens on a transitory basis at high temperature. When two lithium-6 nuclei approach each other, on the rare occasion that they both condense at the same time to interact as a cluster of 6 deuterons, then this is identical to all of them being condensed in the sense of nuclear bosons, so that when they come out of coherence, due to thermal effects then they can come out as 3 alphas (helium nuclei) BUT there is much less enthalpy than normal, since the statistics which permit the clustering, also deplete nuclear mass. Therefore the three alphas do not have anywhere near the expected excess energy, but it is still large compared to chemical The way to validate this is to find helium in the ash. It is pretty much that simple, and it explains cold fusion not as fusion of deuterons but as fusion of Li-6 in the electrolyte. Jones
