On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pd-D produces helium in the same ratio as plasma fusion reactors do, so > obviously it is a d-d reaction. > This is incorrect on two accounts. First, PdD does not produce helium in the same ratio as plasma fusion reactors. Here are the ratios that plasma fusion reactors would produce, if DD were the primary reaction in plasma fusion reactors (which it is not, for the most part): - d(d,n)3He ~ 50 percent - d(d,p)t ~ 50 percent - d(d,G)4He < 0.1 percent For this reason alone it is not obviously a dd reaction. In addition, there are other reasons that it might not be a dd reaction. Perhaps you are not persuaded by them. We're each entitled to our opinion. In any case, this reaction produces far more energy than any chemical > reaction could, with no chemical changes. It clearly is not fission. > Tell this to Mizuno, Savvatimova, Karabut, etc., who have seen good evidence for fission. It is not clearly not fission. Eric
