I think if we look at the composition of our gas giants, which I predict have a LENR reactor at their core, we will get some clues...
Jupiter: 89.8±2.0%hydrogen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen> (H2) 10.2±2.0%helium <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium> ~0.3%methane <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane> ~0.026%ammonia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia> ~0.003%hydrogen deuteride <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_deuteride> (HD) 0.0006%ethane <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethane> 0.0004%water <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water> *Ices*:ammonia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia> water <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water> ammonium <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_hydrosulfide> hydrosulfide <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_hydrosulfide>(NH4SH) On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > There is another option, no involving CoE. The energy of two nuclei coming > together is not conserved but, is very slightly depleted by strong force > interactions (QCD color changes) loosing tiny amounts of mass. > > In fact this is the most common nuclear reaction in the Universe – well > over > 99.99% of all nuclear reactions are > > P+P <=> 2He <=> P+P > > Approximate 10^20 of these reversible fusion/fission reactions are required > on our sun before a single reaction proceeds to deuterium. And most of the > time that deuterium is stripped back to a proton and an neutron before it > further fuses to stable helium. Otherwise, the “fuel” in our sun would have > been depleted billions or years ago. > > It is a small step to imagine that magnons are released constantly during > this reversible fusion reaction- up until the point that the average mass > of > protons is depleted to the point that gluons can no longer hold quarks > together, which triggers the rare beta decay of 2He -> deuterium. > > Jones > > From: Eric Walker > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The energy of two nuclei is conserved and > remains small during the motion through the Coulomb > barrier. > The > penetration through this barrier, which is the main > obstacle > for > low-energy fusion, strongly depends on a form of the > incident flux on the > Coulombcenter at large distances from it. In contrast to > the > usual > scattering, the incident wave is not a single plane wave > but > the certain > superposition of plane waves of the same energy and various > directions, > for example a convergent conical wave. > > I like explanations along these lines -- ones that don't > require slamming particles into one another at high speeds. In the end I > wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being something like what the author > seems to be getting at. Two analogies that come to mind: (1) when a > large, > heavy object hits the water at high speeds, you get one kind of outcome, > and > when it slips into the water at low speed, you get something else entirely. > Or (2), when you don't have a key, to get past a door you're going to have > to break it down, but when you have the key, it will open with little > effort. There may be something equivalent to an electromagnetic "key" that > amplifies the tunneling probability by several orders of magnitude for a > certain period of time. > > I have no opinion about the details of Ivlev's theory. > > Eric > >
