Hi Robin, ➢ It violates conservation of charge unless one can simultaneously flip the charge of an electron, which would be the equivalent of getting a proton and an electron to swap charges.
Hmmm… Perhaps that is exactly what happens on a transient basis. Some kind of double charge reversal occurs on irradiation - which could be transient since the UDH hydrogen is very compact and annihilation would be almost instantaneous. Consequently, one suspects that the Holmlid effect does not scale up well – but large size is not needed in this case since so many muons are produced per pulse and each will catalyze dozens of fusion reactions. He seems to be looking at a megawatt as the thermal capacity limit in a muon catalyzed fusion implementation. It could be possible that the frequency/wavelength of Holmlid’s laser was a lucky choice and is somehow spatially resonant with a cluster of dense hydrogen. His papers list the wavelength at 1064 or 532 nm so there is probably a frequency doubling feature. That wavelength would imply a very large cluster of UDH if there was spatial resonance. The pulse energy is listed as miniscule - only .2J to .5J which works out to about e^18 coherent photons per pulse. This is incredibly low energy input -billions of times lower than a beamline - and yet many muons appear, as if by magic. I hope he is correct on this because it would be the most important finding in LENR since the beginning, in 1989. Almost certainly there is a backdoor mechanism of some kind at work here. The formation of antimatter via charge conjugation in dense hydrogen could be the best explanation.
