In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:54:18 -0700: Hi, [snip] >Dr. Louie was kind enough to reply, and he thought that the >deuterons would have to have temperatures on the order of eV (1 eV = 11604 >K) in order to alter the DFT all that much. (A "DFT" is a density >functional theory -- a model of the electron density.) > >What I take away from this is that (1) the general idea of altering the >electron charge density through Rydberg excitation of the outer shell metal >electrons is not in itself crazy, and (2) the hydrogen or deuterium nuclei >might not have enough energy to accomplish this in general, since the >electronic structure requires a lot more energy to perturb in this way than >the hydrogen/deuterium nuclei are likely to have dissolved within a metal. > But there might be other ways to accomplish this kind of perturbation that >come to mind -- through the decay of naturally occurring alpha and beta >emitters, for example, and through sparks or other voltage perturbations.
Perhaps light is also a possibility? Also, once 1 reaction has occurred, enough energy is liberated to excite millions of Pd electrons, which may go someway toward explaining "hot spots". Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
