I agree that the sole transition into UDH with the release of hundreds of eV is the way to go. However the comprehension of the energetics of UDH remains incomplete. For example, in Badiei et al (2010): Production of ultradense deuterium: A compact future fusion fuel, a continuous interconversion between RM and UDH is claimed, something that would be hardly possible for a difference of hundreds of eV between the two states.
Holmlid:
QuoteThe time variation of the collector signals was initially assumed to be due to time-of-flight of the ejected particles from the target to the collectors. Even the relatively low particle velocity of 10–20 MeV u-1 found with this assumption [21–23] is not explainable as originating in ordinary nuclear fusion. The highest energy particles from normal D+D fusion are neutrons with 14.1 MeV and protons with 14.7 MeV [57]. The high-energy protons are only formed by the D + 3He reaction step, which is relatively unlikely and for example not observed in our laser-induced D+D fusion study in D(0) [14]. Any high-energy neutrons would not be observed in the present experiments. Thus, ordinary fusion D+D cannot give the observed particle velocities. Further, similar particle velocities are obtained also from the laser-induced processes in p(0) as seen in Figs 4, 6 and 7 etc, where no ordinary fusion process can take place. Thus, it is apparent that the particle energy observed is derived from other nuclear processes than ordinary fusion. It is clear that such laser-induced nuclear processes exist in p(0) as well as in D(0). The low laser intensity used here, of the order of 3×1012 W cm-2 makes it impossible to directly accelerate the particles (especially the neutral ones) to high energies. For example, in Refs. [58,59] more than 1019 W cm-2 was used to accelerate heavy ions to > 1 MeV u-1 energies, thus close to 107higher intensity than used here.
If the energy of fusion (14 MeV) does not pack enough energy to accelerate the particles seen at 3/4 the speed of light. How can this 1 kev energy derived from UHD formation do it? It is time for you'll to go back and rethink things.
"I agree that the sole transition into UDH with the release of hundreds of eV is the way to go." This is wrong.