Michel,
One more issue should be mentioned - which was covered by Mitchell
Swartz many years ago, and that is catastrophic deloading which occurs
with temperature increase, and the subsequent focusing of the moving
deuterons into defect spaces. It is somewhat the reverse of "fractofusion"
Reference for the CAM hypothesis:
Swartz. M., "Catastrophic Active Medium Hypothesis of Cold Fusion" Vol.
4. "Proceedings: "Fourth International Conference on Cold Fusion"
sponsored by EPRI and the Office of Naval Research (1994) and also
Swartz, M., "Hydrogen Redistribution By Catastrophic Desorption In
Select Transition Metals", Journal of New Energy, 1, 4, 26-33 (1997)
