I have always thought that He4 is also a product of increase alpha decay caused by a slight coulomb barrier lowering and not a product of fusion.
It is fission all the way, Pd/D and Ni/H. It is tragic that fusion has confused so many excellent minds for so long. Cheers: Axil On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The reaction should be called cold fission. >> > Yes, it is tempting to think there is fission going on (or perhaps > "cluster decay"). > >> He4 being a gas will escape the nuclear active zone before a fusion >> process can build on it so that a step based transmutation process can get >> to the next higher element in the transmutation chain. >> > 4He is not necessarily mobile in a metal the way H is, so it could > potentially stay put. 4He is normally thought to arise in Pd/D. If Ni/H > is real, there is no consensus that 4He is a product. > > Eric > >
