On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:55 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
It appears that the actual motion of the Ni and H atoms is still far > smaller than that required to breach the coulomb barrier. I would like to > find that thermal or sound alone is enough to lead to LENR, but it just > does not seem to be energetic enough. At the energies we're talking about (<< 20 keV), it seems like Coulomb penetration is effectively zero. The only hope we have at these temperatures is tunneling. My naive understanding is that there's Coloumb penetration -- jumping over the wall -- in which case the height of the wall is important; and there's tunneling -- teleporting through the wall -- in which case the width of the wall is important. I think the latter phenomenon is where our hopes are best placed at these energies. Eric
