The COULOMB
BARRIER is one of the standard issues of the dominant paradigm.
Question:
a) can it
be overcome by some special case?
b) is it no
barrier at all, but only an artifact of the dominant paradigm ?
If LENR is
real, it is confronted to choose between one of those TWO options.
If we are
'conservative' we choose (a).
Only in
case of undeniable necessity we choose (b).
Now Ahern
developed a theory which is debatable.
We
discussed that already:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg64888.html
In the
light of Rossi's 600degC claim, Ahern's theory gets a specific color:
It rests on
non-idealities/disturbances of Ni/Pd crystal-structures, which develop local
energies to overcome the Coulomb-barrier, which sounds convincing in the first
place, but is not.
It is
exactly these statistical variances, which make the process shaky in the first
place, not your smooth campfire, where you warm your feet in a mild
summer-night.
This
somehow is consistent with findings, that perfectly regular structures seem to
not produce LENR effects.
i) events
are statistically possible, but extremely rare: years and not usecs, so there
are many orders of magnitude (>1e12) between.
This large
barrier seems consistent with the stability of 'our' universe, with some black
swans occasionally occuring.
So choose
wisely what You wish for!
ii) Rossi/DGT… effects rely on a window of 'good
manor', eg 400 to 600degC local temperature , everything else being either
destructive (melting) or ineffective.
Still
unproven.
( Note: I
do NOT deny small-scale LENR effects, but 1e4 (Watt-> 10kW) is significant
enough to raise some doubts.)
Guenther
