On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> That is what you seem to be missing in all of this. It is not hot fusion > but CoE does apply. In the O-P reaction, the Coulomb barrier is overcome > when two deuterons approach each other with the neutron end of each facing > the other – i.e. being geometrically ahead of the proton end. The 1.7 MeV > barrier is effectively lowered to about 10 keV. > I wonder how this affects Ron Maimon's proposal -- as the two deuterons approach the palladium nucleus and reach the classical turning point, the proton ends would be oriented both away from the positively charged palladium nucleus and away from the other deuterium nucleus. The neutrons would be right in the middle of it all. Eric
