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- Article 4721 of sci.physics:
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- From: rb@hpcuhb.HP.COM (Robert Brooks)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Cold Fusion -- a Chain Reaction?
- Message-ID: <5250002@hpcuhb.HP.COM>
- Date: 31 Mar 89 18:26:06 GMT
- References: <1989Mar29.175756.26926@cs.rochester.edu>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
- Lines: 15
- Posted: Fri Mar 31 13:26:06 1989
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- The chain-reaction idea is interesting. Perhaps protons are the mechanism.
- Wouldn't energetic protons tend to be "focused" by repulsion of the
- palladium nuclei along interstitial lines in the lattice, and thus very
- likely to interact with the deuterons occupying the interstices?
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- It seems the circumstance most fruitful for the occurence of fusion
- would be a pair of protons moving in the same direction along adjacent
- interstitial lines at nearly the same time. This would result in many
- deuterons along the path of the protons being deflected toward each other.
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- Someone mentioned "spin alignment" as a possible reason for the
- D + D -> T + p reaction being favored over D + D -> He3 + N. Would
- opposite spins favor the former? (Opposite spins would seem to result
- from this scenario.)
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- Article 4737 of sci.physics:
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- From: piro@bnlux0.bnl.gov (Oreste Piro)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Cold Fusion -- a Chain Reaction?
- Message-ID: <1090@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
- Date: 1 Apr 89 08:12:32 GMT
- References: <1989Mar29.175756.26926@cs.rochester.edu>
- Reply-To: piro@bnlux0.UUCP (Oreste Piro)
- Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y.
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- Posted: Sat Apr 1 03:12:32 1989
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- In article <1989Mar29.175756.26926@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
- >Thinking a bit more about cold fusion, I was perplexed by something.
- >There clearly has to be tunneling going on. That means something
- >has to force the nuclei close to one another so the tunneling rate
- >is nontrivial. This likely takes energy. Where does the energy
- >come from?
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- >It occured to me that it might come from other fusion reactions. When
- >a fusion reaction occurs, it spits out one or more energetic nuclei.
- >These nuclei scatter off other light nuclei, which are displaced to
- >new locations in the Pd lattice -- perhaps to locations of higher
- >energy, where they are close to other nuclei with which they may now
- >fuse.
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- I like this model. Actually, why not thinking of large distortions of
- the latice (superphonons!) produced by each reaction, propagating
- away and inducing new reactions?
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- >One may ask how the chain reaction gets started. One possibility is
- >alpha particle emitters that are no doubt present as trace
- >contaminants in the Pd.
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- Another possibility could be muon induced fusions. There would be about
- .1 muons/sec cosmic rays originated muons passing through a cell
- of the size of the ones reported.
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- >This model offers a new explanation for the long induction time needed
- >for fusion to start -- the Pd rod must "go critical".
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- It also add some worries. If true, it wont be difficult to get
- suitable conditions for an explosion. Can you see the impact of
- easy to carry and home made solid state H-bombs?
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- > Paul F. Dietz
- > dietz@cs.rochester.edu
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- Oreste Piro
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