On Mar 27, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Taylor J. Smith wrote:
Is it possible to have room temperature and low pressure plasma cold fusion reactions?
If the results of Claytor et al. are considered cold fusion, then the answer is probably yes. Claytor used a low pressure gas regime, involving charged hydrogen species, and thus plasma, but the electrostatic energy involved would better be called "warm". Too hot to be called cold and too cold for thermonuclear fusion.
Similar things might be said regarding experiments by Storms and others that used much lower voltages than Claytor, on the order of hundreds of volts rather than thousands, yet still not "cold" in comparison to room temperature.
Then there are high voltage electrolysis experiments that cover the range up to over 1 keV, and involve plasma, but are also far from room temperature.
All the above types of cold or warm fusion involve surface effects, so could not rightly be called plasma fusion.
I can imagine cold fusion in space when deuterium encounters the right nanoparticles and is converted to helium. Is the background helium concentration a measure of this activity?
Background helium is primarily from alpha decay, e.g. radon.
If most of the universe exists as plasma, as suggested by Hannes Alfvén, could there be a lot of natural cold fusion going on? Jack Smith
There may be cold fusion going on inside the earth. Out in the vacuum of space, it is hot fusion. Inside stars, there are a variety of processes at work, some undoubtedly not yet discovered.
Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
