On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Alan J Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote:
> At 03:08 PM 12/2/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: > > The simple fact is that it takes 780 keV localized on a single atomic site > to cause electron-capture by a proton. WL try to explain how that might > happen, but they don't admit that you only have to concentrate about 100 > keV into a single atomic site to get a useful probability of fusion. So, > fusion is much more energetically favored than electron capture by a > proton, but you'd never get that message from a WL paper. The Coulomb > barrier deceit is used to win over the likes of Krivit and Bushnell, who > don't have a background in the field, but could have a certain influence > among potential investors to Lattice Energy LLC. > > > You'd better go and change the "Heavy Electron/Fermion" wiki, then : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_fermion > > > The name "heavy fermion" comes from the fact that below a characteristic > temperature (typically below 10K) the conduction electrons in these > metallic compounds behave as if they had an effective > mass<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_mass>up to 1000 times the > free-electron mass. > > OK, so that's at 10K ... but lots of interesting stuff happens in > lattices, and various effects (including superconductivity) are showing up > at higher and higher temperatures. > That effective mass refers to their decreased mobility; it is not a relativistic mass. They're not the kind of heavy electrons WL are talking about. They need more than just higher *effective* mass. A neutron has more *real* (rest) mass than a proton and an electron combined, and to make that additional rest mass takes real energy, 780 keV of it. WL latest paper with Sri... actually admit that explicitly, although, as I said, quietly.
