In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:16:45 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Holmlid, Miley and associates, claim that the density seen in their testing >works out to the equivalent of ~10^29 atoms/cm^3, which more than enough for >the "solar variety" of proton-proton tunneling reaction (or chain reaction) >which is one of the prime fusion reactions by which stars convert hydrogen >to energy. The proton-proton chain reaction dominates in stars the size of >our Sun or smaller, which are in this range of density. > >In 1939, Hans Bethe proposed that one of the protons in this reaction will >beta+ decay into a neutron via the weak interaction during the fusion, >making deuterium as an initial product in the chain that leads to helium - >and he won the Nobel Prize, in part for this insight. It adds new meaning to >one of the early idioms for cold fusion - "sun in a bottle". > >In reading Ed Storms recent musings, he seems to favor a rare version of >this H+H reaction for Rossi - one that does not involve extreme density - >known as the P-e-P reaction, which also results in deuterium, as the 'ash'.
Calculations I have done in this direction tend to indicate that P-e-P fusion within a maximally shrunken Hydrino molecule is still too slow to be of use, unless the radius goes as the square of the quantum number rather than linear with it. This is a consequence of the weak force decay reaction. However I must admit that I have trouble sorting out which effects different sources include in their reaction rate constants. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
