In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:13:34 -0800: Hi, [snip] >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.
All of these are explained if the active particle is a f/H molecule. 1. The molecule is neutral, thus is not bothered by the Ni electrons. 2. There are no gamma rays because only one of the two protons fuses, the other being ejected carrying the energy of the reaction. Fusion primarily with 62Ni & 64Ni yields stable copper isotopes. 3. Heat is deposited to the substrate by fast protons. 4. The fact that the molecule is neutral gets it close enough to the nucleus to make tunneling possible. The reported 6.7 MeV protons could be an average of the 6.122 MeV & 7.453 MeV protons expected from proton fusion with 62Ni & 64Ni respectively. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
