On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:50 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: However having lost almost all of their energy, how do they penetrate far > enough > into a Pd atom to undergo fusion reaction? >
Good question. In a different connection, an important point that he makes concerns the ROI -- he says that a 20 keV deuteron will travel a long distance, perhaps on the order of millimeters, through a metal. Assuming he's right, that's a lot more than 38 atoms, so I suspect the initial back-of-the-envelope calculation for the energy loss was off in at least that respect. Eric
