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There are strong theoretical grounds for lattice assisted fusion. The metal lattice acts to screen the deuterium atoms, and the lattice increases the overall c
by lumost 6y ago
There are strong theoretical grounds for lattice assisted fusion. The metal lattice acts to screen the deuterium atoms, and the lattice increases the overall cross section.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168583X17306286 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01685...
Unfortunately no practical mechanism for creating a self sustaining reaction has been proposed. Although the theoretical benefit has been demonstrated by heating the fuel via hot neutron bombardment.
https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.101.044609 https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.101.0...
- gus_massa 6y agoThe articles are interesting, but in both case it is not enough the 400°C that they used in this experiment. I think that "cold fusion" is not theoretically impossible. For comparison, "high temperature superconductivity" is also weird, and in 1985 any result about it would have been received with a big dose od skepticism. The problem is that "cold fusion" has a very bad track record in the last years.