> The detail which are either leaving out, or minimizing, is the > all-important issue of metal matrix confinement.
this is indeed one of the "conditions of CF experiments" I mentioned, I was trying not to be too specific as there are other such conditions e.g. circulation of a current. > In this 'confinement situation", the deuteron's lone electron - which > you see as impeding the reaction - You must have typed this in a hurry Jones, a/ a deuteron has no electron of course and b/ in "electron catalyzed fusion" the electron doesn't impede the reaction obviously :) Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Electron fugacity, deuteron fugacity, and applied fields > Michel, > >> This certainly occurs, I don't think anyone denies this, but the question >> is, at what rate, if it's e.g. once per century it's no use of course. Many >> CF researchers believe it occurs more often in the conditions of CF >> experiments, and your more recent developments aim at increasing the rate >> further, right? > > The detail which are either leaving out, or minimizing, is the > all-important issue of metal matrix confinement. > > Although one deuteron will easily fit into the interstitial space of an > FCC metal structure like Pd, this small space will accommodate two > (bound or unbound) deuterons, and that is presumably when the LENR > reaction is poised to occur with higher than QM probability. > > In this 'confinement situation", the deuteron's lone electron - which > you see as impeding the reaction - may actually be pulled away by the Pd > electron cloud, so that the nucleus is effectively bare for a short time > (femptoseconds ??) and the statistical probability of the reaction then > relates to having both of them bare at the same instant. > > However - there are two or more (arguable) alternatives to the simplest > model: > > D + e- + D -> He + e- + gamma > > And one would be utilizing a temporary Cooper Pair (2e-) > > D + (2e-) + D -> He + e- + e- > > It should be noted that Pd deuteride is a superconductor. It should be > noted that if the (2e-) is somehow 'degenerate' in the sense of lower > kinetic energy then some of the extra energy of the expected 24 MeV > excess - could go into bringing them up to ground state - and that is > why the gamma is seldom seen. > > And the other situation would involve either a temporary or permanent > excursion of one (or both) deuterons to the below ground state condition. > > Jones >
