----- Original Message ---- From: Robin van Spaandonk
> Wouldn't it be easier to just give each nano-particle a charge and accelerate them in an electric field? Possibly - but one thing left unmentioned was the desirability of keeping the nanoparticle very cold. I am trying to find or imagine a possible QM regime for fusion, which is NOT thermonulcear per se, but employs the acceleration of the fuel particle for two reasons which are impossible to achieve in a normal LENR cell at cryogenic temperatures - where the energy of adjacent reactions quenches the active zone. Pressumably an accelerated fuel - which is in its own reference 'frame' can remain cold untill the instant it is reacted. The temperature of the target would not be relevant if the speed of the particle was sufficient -- and this would also lower the transition time from a BEC state to a very hot state. (at the same time requiring far less energy input for the acceleration than would be required to achieve a true thermonulcear state). IOW this (thought experiment) is to be a kind of a *hybrid* between hot and cold fusion -- i.e. between QM tunneling andthermonulcear fusion -- which would hopefully happen at greatly umproved statistical rates. Not sure it is even possible to accelerate a cold particle and keep it cold - as a very hard vacuum in the linear accelerator would be difficult to achieve with a constant input of particles and any stray atom would kill the cryogenic state of many particles. If a very hard vacuum could be maintained, another option might be both a ferromagnetic polarity combined with an excitonic charge in the fuel nanoparticle. Having a buckball core seems to facilitate this excitonic state, as the 'space' in the C-60 sphere acts like an electron hole, and perhaps does manage to coheren a positron from the Dirac epo field. The Frenkel electron of a bucky-exiton has typical binding energy on the order of 1.0 eV and this limits the gradient of the accelerating field (unless it is a repulsive electric field) but might allow acceleration without local heating? Jones
