In reply to Eric Walker's message of Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:41:02 -0700: Hi, [snip] >The new outline leaves at least three important unknowns to be sorted out >(a) How do the p's and d's acquire sufficient energy to fuse, even with >screening?
They don't need energy, if they can be brought close enough together. They can tunnel through the barrier. All fusion (with the exception of high energy particle beam fusion) works this way. >(b) What causes the electron charge distribution to change? As you already intimate in a following post, your "angry bees" may do the job. > (c) What happens to the Bremsstrahlung? There may not be a lot. If there are enough "angry bees" around to provide sufficient shielding for the tunneling to take place at all, then they could all share in the energy release, so the energy / electron would likely be a lot less than the total available. Furthermore on average only about 1% of electron energy is converted into bremsstrahlung (literally: "braking radiation"), the rest is used to ionize atoms, and create more "angry bees" some of which will create even more angry bees. :) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
