In reply to Eric Walker's message of Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:10:03 -0800: Hi, [snip] >It seems like unless the entire local region of the metal, in >which deuterons can move around freely, were filled to the brim with them, >a band gap in which additional deuterons are temporarily forced into a high >energy level would be hard to set up, even if it were conceivably possible, >since otherwise those deuterons would just migrate and spill out into low >pressure regions. Also, it's not clear what would create a gap.
Indeed. Besides, there's a whole lot of room between 20 keV & a few milli-eV. IOW according to his definition, "high energy" could be almost anything, and deuterons could lose 99.9999 % of their energy, and still be called "high energy", i.e. not be of sufficiently low energy to even come into contention for the low energy band. However having lost almost all of their energy, how do they penetrate far enough into a Pd atom to undergo fusion reaction? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
