Hi, As best as I can remember, Arie said that he created fusion in a vortex when ions traveled at nearly the speed of light. This may be reasonable, if the particles own magnetic field at those velocities was almost as strong as the Coulomb field, effectively countering it sufficiently to allow the nuclear force to dominate.
(See e.g. http://www.vrijeenergiemachine.nl/content/view/14/2/ ) This affect may also be occurring in microscopic vortices in CF cathodes, see the cover photo of Mizuno's book "Nuclear Transmutation: The reality of Cold Fusion" (see:- http://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Transmutation-Reality-Cold-Fusion/dp/1892925001/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214457245&sr=8-1 ) Where the "explosive" craters, look for all the world, like little vortices. In short the similarity may be more than coincidence. Arie created his vortices within a strong electric field. Perhaps the strong field momentarily created when a crack forms is sufficient to do this on a microscopic scale during CF?
