At 10:08 AM 6/4/2010, David Jonsson wrote:
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One mole 6*10^23 of fully charged air would then lose one milliwatt
equivalent to half an hour to lower the temperatue one Kelvin.
Apparently this effect is totally negligible.
Or did I do something wrong?
Well, it depends on what result you expected, perhaps?
Electrostatic cooling is a possible explanation for how small
clusters, as small as two molecules of deuterium, could become
low-velocity to each other, for a short time, i.e., "cool." Very
cool, it would have to be, cool enough to allow a Bose-Einstein
condensate to form, which is then predicted to fuse by Takahashi.
The overall cooling rate would, in fact, be zero, the low relative
velocity is simply the bottom end of a statistical spread. But all it
takes is being cool, relatively for not much more than a femtosecond,
according to Takahashi's math. From my own look at this, qualitative,
not quantitiative, it looks like the collision electrostatic cooling
would not allow reaching the fusion configuration unless there is
some external constraint, presumbably from the lattice, that prevents
the molecules from dissociating, or slows that down enough to allow
approach to Takahashi's Tetrahedral Symmetric configuration.
It's been said that BEC theory is crazy because NAE seems to form
better at high energy. As long as the lattice is intact, the local
energy, the collision velocity of two molecules, necessary to allow
that close approach, would increase with temperature. It is not just
coolness that is needed, that coolness is available in the gas phase,
occasionally. It is coolness under confinement, plus sufficient
collision energy, with just the right vectors, that causes fusion to
become possible (if this approach is correct.) This condition is
apparently, from the low reaction rate, very, very rare.
