On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: "Are Ni+H Nuclear-Reactions Possible" > www.iscmns.org/work10/TakahashiAarenihnucl.ppt >
I see now where you're coming from. There has been an ongoing question of whether there is proton capture with the nickel atoms themselves, and I think Andrea Rossi had said something to this effect at some point. I had sort of put the question of Ni+p proton capture out of my mind somehow. I have been under the impression that if there is proton-, deuteron- or pseudo-neutron capture taking place, it would be primarily with impurity atoms (Cu, Zn, Co, Li, etc.) or with other species of hydrogen (e.g., p+d and d+d). In the slides, Takahashi raises several objections to Ni+p: 1. Ni+p is implausible because the proton would get caught up in the outer electron shells before it made it to the nucleus. 2. There should be lethal doses of gamma rays. 3. Decay modes of the daughters do not provide a way to deposit heat to the substrate. 4. There's no quantitatively-proven mechanism to overcome the Coulomb repulsion. These points go well beyond my knowledge. I have read somewhere that (1) is not an issue. Points (2) and (4) have been raised since 1989 in connection with Pd/D, so one has to be willing to suspend disbelief on them to entertain many of the explanations that are currently going around. Objection (3) is very interesting, and I'll now pay more attention to what he might have in mind here. Eric
