Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> You are intentionally obfuscating. When hydrogen or deuterium are > densified by giving up angular momentum of the electron orbital - heat is > released. That heat shows up in the excess heat of the reaction along with > nuclear heat, if there is any. > If that is true, it is not energy storage. It has nothing to do with energy storage. Like all forms of energy, it decreases the mass of the hydrogen or deuterium. If it were energy storage, it would increase the mass. You said earlier that the energy is stored: "This dynamic only happens when the stored energy is nuclear, not chemical." If the reactants are altered to have higher potential energy, then energy is being stored. Mass is increased (which is too small to measure), and there has to be an energy deficit in the system (which is easily measured). If the system is a calorimeter, this has to show up as a heat deficit. It makes no difference whether the higher potential energy is in atoms (nuclear energy) or molecules (chemical energy) or the internal structure of a spring (mechanical energy). Every joule of stored energy will produce exactly the same heat deficit, and will increase the mass exactly the same amount in all three system. If the atoms are being altered to release energy, like atoms that fission or molecules that burn, that's not energy storage. That's a material being altered in a way that releases energy. - Jed
