About the Coulomb barrier in LENR

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I hope that the lack of replicas does not mean that you think I'm a fraud playing with three nuts

Don't be discouraged. We have a lot of theories floating around, and members are hesitant to put their time and effort into understanding each and every one that comes along. They have just so much time in the day to devote.

It takes something special to get their attention, and that is either experimental evidence, or a big name behind the theory.

Hang in there.

No such thing as a Coulomb barrier in real life. Only a limitation imposed by quantum theory physics. When are you going to move on to understand new RELATIVITY which ousted the STANDARD MODEL at the turn of LAST CENTURY?? It is only useful for explaining CHEMICAL reactions but NOT LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR FUSION PHYSICS!!! Please read @Wyttenbach's papers and Leif Holmlid's too to get an idea of what I'm talking about.

Dear bayak , don't take lack of interest personally. LENR has never had a trouble of having potential theoretical explanations, of which are well over 120 by now. The problem has been, and quite consistently, a lack of experimental reproducibility, and this is why our community will rather focus on experiments than theory. We recently had an invitation to a zoom conference from a mainstream nuclear researcher that is also a member of LENR-forum and has gotten an interest on the topic, and It did not seem to gather much interest either. You can see the conference recording in this thread:

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RE: Zoom talk on LENR - TODAY

Sorry, there was an error in the Zoom link. The Meeting ID and passcode are correct.
The corrected link is:
https://iitk-ac-in.zoom.us/j/9…WOVNwZjVYYWdBWG1WSUdrZz09

Rajeev

Oct 11th 2021

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For reproducibility of the experiment, LENR should be based on theory. Therefore, carefully read the note from the original post.

I agree, theory is of great importance. Howver, complex experiments also require a great deal of process knowledge -this is where 'the rubber hits the road'. Many people have failed to reproduce experiments that have been demonstrated many times by really skilled lab workers.

Neither theory, or technical skill alone gets LENR over the finish line

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an experiment without a theory is unreliable, you have to hope for luck

As is a theory with no experimental foundations. You can't have one without the other. As an example, in the more mundane world of process chemistry I am working on the purification of metal oxides/hydroxides. At 99.99% purity many of these are valuable industrial chemicals. There are theories and also experimental papers about doing this - but after doing the reading you just have to keep hammering away at the experiments day after day finding out what works and how and why.

The purity of FeKO2 does not matter within a LENR fusion reactor as long as sufficient catalyst is produced to form the Rydberg Matter, UDH or UDD.

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we propose to use the approximation of three nuclei lying on the line and calculate the potential energy that accumulates when the central nucleus is displaced to the extent that it overcomes the Coulomb barrier

Your assumption is essentially correct and there are even reproducible experiments confirming it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Except that it's way easier to achieve displacement of electron orbitals (which would shield the atom nuclei) than displacement of atom nuclei itself.

Concretions are such objects, there are just a few points, and there are always 3...

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In my example, we are talking about plasma, which is why the nuclei in the double layer of plasma are displaced

In plasma the probability that atom nuclei spontaneously arrange along a single line is extremely low. Which is why cold fusion runs within metal crystals, along their nanocracks and dislocations (where thermal motion of atoms gets constrained even more) in particular.

What is double layer of plasma?

ETSIAE PlasmaLab: Research / Plasma double layers

Double plasma layers are charge structures that develop in the plasma volume. A jump in the electric potential spatial profile connects two different plasmas and accelerates charged particles of opposite signs.