It would appear that clusters of electrons can form in some materials
at low temperature. The BIG question is whether these have the ability
to initiate a nuclear reaction, especially at a rate of near 10^11
times/sec as is required to explain CF. As for the Miley idea, the
question is whether a large cluster of deuterons can form in PdD in
violation of the laws of thermodynamics and whether these would form a
new nucleus in violation of all that is known about nuclear
interaction. None of these questions has been answered. Simply seeing
a new effect in a material at low temperature is not an answer.
Ed Storms
On Jan 24, 2013, at 12:28 AM, Axil Axil wrote:
By the way, Anderson localization will concentrate degenerate
electrons near cracks in a metal lattice. This will catalyze the
formation of proton crystals within the cracks as seen by Miley in
his experimentation.
Ed Storm said this about Miley’s experimentation in “Edmund Storms /
Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science 9 (2012) 1–22:”
A source of screening electrons has been suggested to exist between
two materials having different work functions, the so-called
swimming electron theory [85–87]. These electrons are proposed to
reduce the Coulomb barrier and explain the transmutation
observations reported by Miley [88,89]. Unfortunately, this theory
ignores how the required number of protons can enter the available
nuclei in the sample without producing radioactive isotopes, which
are seldom detected. Miley et al. [90] try to avoid this problem by
creating another problem. Their mechanism involves formation of a
super-nucleus of 306X126 from a large cluster of H and D. This
structure then experiences various fission reactions. The cluster is
proposed to form as local islands of ultra dense hydrogen [91] using
Rydberg-like process [92]. Why so many deuterons would spontaneously
form a cluster in a lattice in apparent violation of the Laws of
Thermodynamics has not been explained.
The SE effect may be the explanation.
Cheers: Axil
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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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
"Method Of Controlling Temperature Of Nonthermal Nuclear Fusion
Fuel In Nonthermal Nuclear Fusion"
http://www.google.com/patents/US20080107224
"Chemonuclear Fusion Reaction Generating Method and Chemonuclear
Fusion Energy Generating Apparatus"
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.
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