I am sure it can! What's your take on the reason why deuterons fuse more easily than identically charged protons BTW? Jones proposed a reason that didn't convince me, namely that the extra neutron does some screening.
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: HyLENR : was: Britain reveals UFO documents In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Thu, 22 May 2008 11:26:47 +0200: Hi, [snip] >For lack of time I haven't gone back to my fusion rate maths efforts yet, but >I guess encounters would be closer by a factor equal to the shrinking factor >roughly, and since I remember you said fusion rate increased wildly with >decreasing distance, I guess that if significantly shrunken hydrinos existed >they would fuse almost immediately. > >I wonder, if my above speculation is correct, could this be the reason why >Mills doesn't want any connection with LENR, because their propensity to fuse >would make hydrinos impossible as stable particles? [snip] This is one reason why I suspect that each successive level of Hydrino shrinkage is more difficult to achieve than the previous level. The earlier levels are still too large to fuse, hence stable compounds are possible. Actually even the small ones need to be very small to have a reasonable fusion half life, with ordinary elements e.g. C, N , O etc. Probably too small to still form the Hydride. The higher the charge on the nucleus, the longer the fusion half-life. (This can get even more complicated if you like ;) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
