I wrote: "In ordinary electrolysis the flow directions seem to me to
be wrong. At the interface the hydrogen hops toward a free electron
and things stop right there. The diffusion is then essentially
through combined motion of the hydrogen and its ionically bound
electron. When diffusion is initiated from the back side as shown,
the electrons don't have to tunnel and chains of reactions can be
catalyzed. Note the electron remains whether fusion occurs or not."
This would have been much better phrased: "In ordinary electrolysis
the flow conditions are wrong. At the interface the hydrogen hops
toward a free electron in the cathode and things stop right there.
The diffusion is then essentially through combined motion of the
hydrogen and its ionically bound electron. Is is simply fusion
through metal until nearly full loading occurs. However, when things
are just ready to get going for fusion, i.e. hydrogen fugacity
becomes high, the diffusion rate drops because the cathode is full."
"When diffusion is initiated from the back side as shown, the
electrons don't tend to tunnel towards the cathode electron current,
and chains of reactions can be catalyzed whereby waveform collapse
occurs on a target destination electron. Note the catalytic electron
remains as an unmatched spare whether fusion occurs or not. When
back side tunneling (i.e. de-loading) is accomplished with a
sufficient tunneling barrier, the flow is maintained at a constant
rate, and need not even begin until the cathode is fully loaded. In
this way the heat is turned up when the fire is stoked in stead of
the stoking choking off the heat."
Note that back side cell fusion is more of a volume effect than a
surface effect.
A significant problem remains and that is helium removal. That might
be cured by using a lattice that can accommodate helium removal, i.e.
helium diffusion. At least using the back side de-loading technique
the helium has an some opportunity to diffuse out, is close to the
"exit", and the diffusion pressure is in the right direction.
It would be interesting to see if gas phase fusion of de-loading
hydrogen could be catalyzed at the tips of small dendrites on the
back side. That would remove the helium waste problem altogether.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
