On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is one complication that does not fall out of these various single > track theories of LENR fusion. That complication is the Fission/Fusion > reaction. What causes many protons to fuse with a high Z element like > nickel? This process results in many and various secondary reaction trees > producing one or more of the light elements including helium, boron, > beryllium, and lithium to form coming out of one LENR reaction. > > > > Such a fission/fusion reaction can be explained by a complete suspension > of the coulomb barrier in a volume of neighboring nuclei would allow a > single nucleus to form with a very large and unsustainable amount of > positive charge to be accumulated in one unstable large nucleus. When the > Coulomb barrier is switched back on, the unstable nucleus with many excess > protons would fission into many light atoms and one or two heaver atoms. > > > Barriers in general perform two functions. They keep something out as well keeping something in. The coulomb barrier keeps protons apart, but could it be argued that they keep mass-energy locked inside. If so, if it were possible to switch the barrier off, that would be like opening a floodgate, so to speak. Fusion is likely to follow but it would not be a necessity for the release of energy. Harry
