On May 26, 2013, at 8:38 PM, [email protected] wrote:
In reply to Edmund Storms's message of Sat, 25 May 2013 12:14:15
-0600:
Hi Ed,
[snip]
OK Eric, I understand. My confusion resulted because you had Ni in
the
equation. You are really suggesting H+D = He3 fusion. This was
suggested in 1989 and efforts were made to look for the resulting He3
without success.
Was anyone looking at Ni+H at this time, or were they all Pd+D
experiments?
This interest was applied only to PdD. However, if D+H can make He3 at
all, the system would not matter. The presence of D and H is the only
requirement, other than the conditions required to initiate the
reaction.
The only time He3 was detected, it resulted from
tritium decay. Nevertheless, tritium IS detected, which can only
result from H+D fusion with an electron added.
I though T was only detected in Pd+D experiments? (Where it is to be
expected
from the occasional D+D => p + T reaction.)
Tritium has been been made when either D2 or H2 were present because
in both cases a little of the other isotope is always present. The
tritium does not come from the reaction you note. It apparently
results from D+H+e fusion, which was proposed as early as 1996 based
on the effect of the D/H ratio. My theory is an attempt to show why
this happens and apply the mechanism to all isotopes of hydrogen.
Ed Storms
[snip]
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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