The description of the Shukla-Eliasson (SE) force is just been released and is a major breakthrough in understanding electron screening behavior within heavy concentrations of degenerate electrons.
http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-physical-attraction-between-ions-in.html The SE paper http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=6&sqi=2&ved=0CD8QFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F1209.0914&ei=OSBQUO6SJKnF0AH5uoG4CA&usg=AFQjCNHGAqMvSJxjgufVpRf7kYFcJtBBIw&sig2=8fhHq-SEQvQCAJKvWP4j2A On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Chuck Sites <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >>>> [...] >>>> >>> >>> >> >
