From: Eric Walker
John Franks wrote: >> Perhaps sufficient screening can bring nucleons within 10s of fermis of one >> another. In my own case I'm not thinking of hydrinos. I'm thinking of brief but sharp transients in the electronic structure of the host metal that intervene between two fusion precursors. This is only mentioned as one example; no doubt trained, disciplined imagination and focus can provide some other possibilities for obtaining screening. I doubt screening is the only promising idea. As I said, there seems to be a lack of imagination. Indeed. Speaking of imagination, one of the better proposals – or analogies (with an emphasis on anal) for how this can happen routinely in a condensed metal was suggested by Michel Julian, which he called the “sphincter effect”. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg42586.html All joking aside, it is very likely that protons (or deuterons) when passing through a metallic and nanoporous proton conductor (like nickel), will be effectively “shot out” of an electron cloud of the metal - and into a nanocavity, where the bare proton will occasionally interact with another coming from the near opposite vector. The strong force takes over from there. Of course, we could clean up the wording a bit and call it the “slingshot effect” …
