The Canadian company - General Fusion has been in the Science News lately. The have an interesting approach to fusion using a lead lithium blanked which is mechanically imploded. This is still hot fusion with all its difficulties.
http://www.generalfusion.com/ Also in the News recently is Unified Gravity, a silicon valley company with an approach to fusion that looks more like LENR. It struck me today that these two approaches, as different as they are - can be combined into a hybrid IF (big if) the Lipinski theory is correct - about the low energy window for lithium fusion - around 200 eV. Here is some information: http://unifiedgravity.com/resources/WO2014189799-PAMPH-330-2.pdf This would allow General Fusion to use a much smaller format since they only need a modest compression. The "textbook" Coulomb barrier is far higher for lithium fusion with deuterons, but it is plausible that P&F were seeing lithium "warm" fusion all along, inadvertently using the 200+ eV window. The electric fields in electrolysis can accelerate deuterons to that level (on the Boltzmann tail of the distribution),which is in the "goldilocks" realm - "not too hot and not too cold". In other words: warm. That is to say, if Lipinski's theory is correct, the Coulomb barrier for lithium shrinks by a factor of several thousand times (at a single resonance point); and thus the barrier is far easier to overcome when the "sweet spot" is found (which is in the range of 223 eV compared to two deuterons - which barrier is nominally 1.5 MeV). >From the Lipinski patent: [0080] The amount of energy imparted to the protons as predicted by the inventor's gravity theory to create the proton-lithium fusion reaction is surprisingly low. The theory predicts that fusion efficiency will be significantly increased when a proton that has overcome the Coulomb barrier has energy close to 223 e V. The experimental results described later in this application verify that by imparting kinetic energy to protons near the predicted energy range results in high rates of fusion that produces helium ions. There is no obvious reason that the General Fusion approach cannot be maximized to fuse the lithium, contained in the lead lithium alloy, using a much higher flux of much lower energy protons and/or deuterons - while reducing the size of the reactor to that of basketball. This hybrid could salvage the massively obscene waste of money spent on hot fusion by hybridizing it with cold fusion into a warm fusion approach. I doubt that either company has considered this up to now. Chances are, sadly, both are too convinced of their own approach that they would not consider the possibility.
