In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:40:47 -0500: Hi, [snip] >But the result that is known is >that helium is produced, and the observed energy >supports the conclusion that the primary fuel is >deuterium. "unknown nuclear reaction" would bring >us full circle. That is what Pons and Fleischmann >actually claimed, not "fusion.") [snip] Even hot fusion operates on tunneling rather than overcoming the Coulomb barrier by brute force. (The latter would require about 30 MeV).
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
