Hi Ed, and fellow vortexians, I've been thinking about the issue of proton fusion in metals, that is can H in metals be so condensed to start the proton-proton chain reaction within a metal lattice. The proton-proton chain reaction is initiated with a strong interaction between two protons, that binds to form a diproton, the diproton then decays via weak interaction (a W boson) into a deuteron + electron + electron neutrino and 0.42 MeV of energy. Wikipedia has a very good description of this processes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%E2%80%93proton_chain_reaction Dr. Storm, you have suggested that lattice dislocations may be ideal locations to form long linear chains of protons that have nuclear potential. That is an intriguing idea, A screened 1D trapped string of protons presents some interesting physics. For one thing, it might be modeled with the Kronig-Penney model of the periodic potential, kind of what S Chubbs was hinting at. Maybe the KP periodic potential model for a chain of protons does supply enough energy for the proton-proton chain to initiate. A screened proton-proton chain in a 1D lattice dislocation. Chuck --- On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > Well Lou, I doubt this can be practical. Most of the energy in the D+ beam > will result in heat with a little energy from fusion added. Meanwhile, an > apparatus is required to supply a very intense D+ beam. I suspect that > once the D+ concentration gets too high in the target, the enhanced effect > of electrons will drop off, thereby creating an upper limit that will be > too small to be useful. The engineering problems will determine how > practical this will be, not the physics. > > Ed > > > > On Jan 23, 2013, at 2:55 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Thanks for the input, Ed >> >> I am agnostic on the underlying physics, but am interested in whether >> this approach make any type of fusion viable. >> >> If you have the time, or interest, in some of this author's patent >> applications, here are a few: >> >> "Method of and apparatus for generating recoilless nonthermal >> nuclear fusion" >> >> http://www.google.com/patents/**US20090052603<http://www.google.com/patents/US20090052603> >> >> "Method Of Controlling Temperature Of Nonthermal Nuclear Fusion >> Fuel In Nonthermal Nuclear Fusion" >> >> http://www.google.com/patents/**US20080107224<http://www.google.com/patents/US20080107224> >> >> "Chemonuclear Fusion Reaction Generating Method and Chemonuclear >> Fusion Energy Generating Apparatus" >> >> http://www.google.com/patents/**US20080112528<http://www.google.com/patents/US20080112528> >> >> -- Lou Pagnucco >> >> Edmund Storms wrote: >> >>> This paper and many others like it describe how HOT fusion is enhanced >>> when it occurs in a chemical lattice. This study has no relationship >>> to cold fusion because the same nuclear products are not formed. >>> While the lattice enhances the hot fusion rate, it does so only at >>> very low energy where the rate is already very small. Here are some >>> other studies. >>> >>> Ed >>> >>> >>> 1. Dignan, T.G., et al., A search for neutrons from fusion >>> in a highly deuterated cooled palladium thin film. J. Fusion Energy, >>> 1990. 9(4): p. 469. >>> >>> 2. Durocher, J.J.G., et al., A search for evidence of cold >>> fusion in the direct implantation of palladium and indium with >>> deuterium. Can. J. Phys., 1989. 67: p. 624. >>> [...] >>> >> >> >
