Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion

Quote from Lou Pagnucco

From Nextbigfuture.com
"Positron Dynamics Vision of Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion"

One more phantasy to get rid of investors money. They claim that e+ anihilation produces kaon's, but they forget to mention, that for that purpose, they need an accelerator...

The prospect is a scam.

Quote from Wyttenbach

they need an accelerator...

I appreciate you and the others keeping exploratory threads open here. Thanks!

Let us think of the prospects without being hobbled by the past and its limitations. Clearly it takes a lot of energy to make a positron (511 keV), but that does not necessarily imply an accelerator. Nuclear proton beta decays can give rise to positrons, for example, particularly from proton rich nuclei (F-18, Mg-22, N-16, C-16 and so on). You may argue that those isotopes are generally made only by accelerators. But I imagine that Eric Walker or others here might argue there may be "catalytic" paths to enhance the rate of proton decay, just as there may be catalytic paths to increased rates neutron, and hence, negative beta decay. Could "naked protons" be manipulated to enhance their decay rate? If it can happen in a nucleus, then perhaps elsewhere. Surely there is at least a possibility that "excess" of a solitary proton might have some enhanced path to decay analogous to that of a vacuum neutron (15 minute half-life) relative to its nuclear bound twin, often with essentially an infinite half life.

Consider that positrons are the vacuum state equivalent of semiconductor "holes". Such holes are already made with annihilation energies below 200 nm, i.e. several electron volts (versus the one eV of the first visible LEDs, or the original small fraction of an eV for IR LEDs).

Quote from Longview

But I imagine that Eric Walker or others here might argue there may be "catalytic" paths to enhance the rate of proton decay, just as there may be catalytic paths to increased rates neutron, and hence, negative beta decay.

Unfortunately, if one could induce a proton to decay, it would be an endothermic reaction requiring -1.2 MeV. I definitely am interested in the possibility that activity can be catalyzed in certain isotopes that are already weakly beta radioactive. But I am deeply pessimistic that protons can be made to decay in any significant quantity.