Frederick Sparber wrote: >IOW, Is Cold Fusion-Deuteration "Target Factory", the required preliminary >step for attaining Hot Fusion?
I have no idea, and I do not understand the technical issues in this case, but I have long had an intuitive feeling that hot fusion and cold fusion must be the same phenomenon in different domains. Two sides of the same coin, in other words, or as Chris Tinsley liked to say, like metabolism and fire. It would not surprise me to learn that cold fusion reactions are a necessary precursor to hot fusion. I do not think that nature has two completely unrelated ways of fusing deuterons to form helium and produce heat in the same fixed ratio. Although the other day when I talked about that ratio in a manuscript, Ed Storms suggested I "leave out hot fusion" because it confuses the issue, and I should just say the heat-to-helium ratio is fixed. I think Ed's recent plasma experiments also point to a relationship between hot fusion and cold fusion. - Jed
