mix...@bigpond.com said on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 6:31 PM >IOW one might expect D-D to be "easy", p-D more difficult, p-Ni even more >difficult, and p-Pd almost impossible. In short while D can easily fuse with >itself (strong force mediated), H can only fuse with itself extremely slowly >(weak force mediated), leaving H few options other than to react preferentially >with any D that might be present, or in the absence thereof with the metal >nucleus.
I agree with Robin's succinct model of H isotopes/ions to the metals atomic weight but would make 2 additional suggestions, 1, that both chemical and nuclear energy can be exploited from this same environment and 2, that Naudt's proposal of relativistic hydrogen is a function of the metal geometry such that Robin's Statement " H can only fuse with itself extremely slowly" can appear very rapid from our perspective outside the catalyst inversely to the Casimir geometry. Suppression can be viewed equally as a relativistic effect where frequencies are "translated" and only appear shorter from our perspective. Regards Fran
