Winterberg's recent pdf is enlightening http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0912/0912.5414.pdf
"It is conjectured that the transition is made possible by the formation of vortices in a Cooper pair electron fluid, separating the electrons from the deuterons, with the deuterons undergoing Bose-Einstein condensation in the core of the vortices. If such a state of deuterium should exist at the reported density of about 100,000 g/cm3, it would greatly facility the ignition of a thermonuclear detonation wave in pure deuterium, by placing the deuterium in a thin disc, to be ignited by a pulsed ultrafast laser or particle beam of modest energy." In regard to the "Cooper pair connection," it can be noted that the superconductivity of loaded palladium goes back before 1989. It is curious to note the transition temps vs loading on the graph here http://www.phys.psu.edu/people/display/index.html?person_id=202;mode=researc h;research_description_id=433 and then extend that line up to the loading ratio or Arata at nearly 4:1 and then in connection with Brian Ahern's patent: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5674632.html Jones
