An In-Lattice Confinement Fusion Reactor(LCFR) is conceptually based on recombination of the charac-
teristic or functional elements of;1)Cold Fusion, 2) Plasma Fusion(MCF&ICF), 3) Fission Reactor, and
4) D-T(D) Neutron Source
Google (UBC/MIT/LBNL) post Nature updates.
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Links please.
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If the theoretical path is wrong, how can they get positive results? They are treating cold fusion as if it were plasma fusion in disguise. They seem to be looking for plasma fusion products such as neutrons, which cold fusion does not produce. If we are right, these projects are doomed to failure.
One might contend that Fleischmann and Pons were on the same track, and this did not prevent them to find positive results. Many are still finding results with a standar model mindset, I know this won't alllow real progress, but has been enough to fuel the Cold Fusion renaissance we are now discussing here.
They are standard model fixated, looking for the keys under the lamp-post, because that's where the light is. Unfortunately, the keys are somewhere they won't even acknowledge exists.
Totally agreed, but in this case they are still finding the smell of the keys, so to speak.
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Links please.
I think this is the one:
https://www.pasj.jp/web_publish/lam1998/A18a06.pdf
It takes some googling. I thank Ahlfors for giving enough clues to some effective googling.
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I think this is the one:
Do you smell the cheese? 1998? .. A bit younger than SM (age 100 years last 40 years desperate..)
As said: If one feeds money to old cows you won't get new milk...
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I think Ahlfors is pointing out that this LCF concept NASA, and now the Berlinguette Group are studying, has been around since at least 1998.
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Some might say it goes back to 1935...this is the root of iit.
The Oppenheimer–Phillips process or strip reaction is a type of deuteron-induced nuclear reaction. In this process the neutron half of an energetic deuteron (a stable isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron) fuses with a target nucleus, transmuting the target to a heavier isotope while ejecting a proton. An example is the nuclear transmutation of carbon-12 to carbon-13.
The process allows a nuclear interaction to take place at lower energies than would be expected from a simple calculation of the Coulomb barrier between a deuteron and a target nucleus. This is because, as the deuteron approaches the positively charged target nucleus, it experiences a charge polarization where the "proton-end" faces away from the target and the "neutron-end" faces towards the target. The fusion proceeds when the binding energy of the neutron and the target nucleus exceeds the binding energy of the deuteron itself; the proton formerly in the deuteron is then repelled from the new, heavier, nucleus.[1]
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s the deuteron approaches the positively charged target nucleus, it experiences a charge polarization where the "proton-end" faces away from the target and the "neutron-end" faces towards the target.
Someone belatedly did some calculations.. 60 yrs laterbut Wikipedia didn't know
Thus at low energies deuteron polarizability effects are negligible, or in other words the Oppenheimer-Phillips process seems to be ineffective and not able to explain the suppression o fneutron-producing reactions in ‘‘cold-fusion’’-type experi-ments @16,17#.
It is important to realize, however, that even if polarization effects were several orders of magnitude larger,the drastic decrease of the cross sections due to the Coulomb penetration factor would still prevent any appreciable enhancement to be noticed
(18) (PDF) Nonexistence of the Oppenheimer-Phillips process in low-energy deuteron-nucleus collisions. Available from:
https://www.researchgate.net/p…uteron-nucleus_collisions [accessed Jul 21 2023].
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Thus at low energies deuteron polarizability effects are negligible,
Even thinking of such an effect is inventing fairy tales.
First the standard model monks have to explain how in a neutral nucleus charge should evolve!
A neutral nucleus is EM flux only and does not follow a symmetric PP* logic used since the man of garbage (Dirac) entered physics. Nuclear excess flux is PP*P** - a tripple higher dimensional wave what has been proven by e+/e- annihilation experiments delivering 3 photons.
