>From the Sparta slide show, the screening potential out in space is estimated to be between 10 and 40 electron volts.
That means an approximant 100,000 times reduction in the coulomb barrier through electron screening. This does not take into account of any tunneling increases due to proton packing from the high pressure hydrogen envelope. Cheers: Axil On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Jojo Jaro <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Most of the stuff in that first slideshow is beyond my paygrade, but did I > read slide 21 correctly. > > I don't know if that graph was drawn to scale but if it is....WOW. > Coulomb Barrier is reduced to a tenth of its original value when properly > screened? >

