the guys at yale are trying to give the hot fusion guys a nudge with: "The results reported in this paper predict that Dþ tunneling through MeV Coulombic barriers could be induced by *sequences of low-energy electron impact ionization pulses*"
Look, yale is doing LENR! :D http://www.chem.yale.edu/~batista/molphys.pdf On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]>wrote: > http://www.google.com/patents/WO2013076378A2?cl=en > > [0033] Regarding the penetration of the Coulomb barrier around the atom > nucleus, resonance of a wave function of a particle in a quantum well > system has been described by David Bohm, "Quantum theory", Prentice-Hall, > New York 1951, which is incorporated herein by reference. Specifically, a > wave is reflecting back and forth across the potential in a quantum well, a > wave coming in the quantum well from outside enhances the wave inside the > quantum well and a strong standing wave is built up inside the quantum well > when the system is in resonance. Further, the waveform of a proton tunnels > through the Coulomb barrier to the nucleus of an atom with certain > probability. Near a resonance the waveform intensity of the proton is > considerable in the quantum well and the probability of fusing proton with > the nucleus is increased. The metastable state of the fused nucleus may > have such a long lifetime in solid state structures that it can decay in > other ways than by re-emission of the incident proton or by emission of > gamma-ray photons, and energy is released over relatively long time also as > lower energy photons (e.g. X-ray photons) or as phonons (lattice > vibrations) to the surrounding solid lattice. [0034] When one or more > electrons of an atom are excited to high principal quantum number, the > excited electron is in the Rydberg state and the atom becomes a Rydberg > atom. It is an electrical dipole with a positive core and a negative > excited electron orbiting relatively far from the core. As a result, > external electric and magnetic fields have a big effect on Rydberg atoms. > Rydberg atoms interact with each other because of the electrical dipole > properties and are capable of binding together. Rydberg atoms are produced > e.g. by electron impact excitation, charge exchange excitation and optical > excitation. Excitation energy below the ionization energy produces Rydberg > states in atoms. These Rydberg atoms are electrically polarized, which > pulls Rydberg atoms together forming clusters of Rydberg atoms. [0035] > Until now elements that have been found to possess Rydberg states comprise > H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, N, Ni, Ag, Cu, Pd, Ti and Y. > > > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Makes sense, definitely complimentary. For example, The finnish patent >> involved increasing tunneling via pyroelectric materials. >> >> Sent from my iPod >> >> On Dec 30, 2013, at 21:31, [email protected] wrote: >> >> > An >> > >
