Could it be that in UDH a neutron-like reaction of a proton to an electron to another proton to form deuterium (and a neutrino) is taking place?
Almost! There are unit particles that are very small but they are not neutral particles, but each unit is a dipole. Of course, a dipole cannot be distinguished from a neutral particle except as the relative speed between particles increases or the distance between particles decreases. As a good guess this smallest particle will adhere to itself, can divide to positive and negative, and combinations of this unit particle leads to all other particles. Those combinations would then explain the families of standard model and the periodic table.
This small unit particle, an electron, a proton and energy combine to produce a neutron. The combination starts with the unit particle, an electron and energy forming a string. The energy in the combination is equal to n2(`13.6 eV) where n is an integer quantum number. These energy spectra are observed in hydrogen recombination and are called phat photons by Pharis Williams. If one puts n=240 into the phat equation above, one finds the energy is equal to the mass difference between a proton and a neutron. That is because the mass of a unit particle is insignificant in comparison to the mass of a neutron or proton.
As a string the unit particle can not separate from the electron regardless of the energy put into their combination. By swinging a unit particle at relativistic speeds about an electron a warp field is created. The electron is no longer an electron but rather a R-electron. R-electrons attract R-electrons due to the warp of time-space. A cluster of R-electrons would then be an EVO. Further, when a R-electron is combined with a proton, then the warp field extends to the hydrogen atom which causes the atom to become denser. Hence, a UDH in an n state of 240 resembles a neutron.
The gravitational field of an EVO can be modeled by doing a force balance on an R-electron at the escape horizon. At the escape horizon the R-electron neither falls into the EVO due to electro-gravity nor escapes due to Coulomb repulsion. Since, the EVO is composed only of R-electrons, since R-electrons have almost exactly the same mass and charge as electrons, one can use the force balance and solve for the electro-gravitational constant which is Ge = kqe2/me2. k is Coulomb's constant, qe is the charge of an electron and me is the mass of an electron. Hence, electro-gravity is about 42 orders of magnitude stronger than Universal gravity.
The energy distribution of within an EVO is governed by electro-gravity and by phat states. Particles which escape an EVO must have at least the escape velocity or higher. Hence, one finds an amazing result from Ed Storms of a distribution of energy of particles from an LENR reaction. The peaks in the distribution are E = n2 (.0457 MeV).
The input energy 794 V sets the size of the EVOs and hence the escape velocity but escape velocity is still dependent on the phat equation also. What is important is that energy distribution at the escape horizon reaches energies sufficiently high to cause nuclear reactions. So, these reactions are not low energy or cold nor do they overcome the coulomb barrier to fusion in some novel way.
When doing "LENR" by electrolysis with metal hydrides, lattice imperfections create resonance cavities which collect the specific wavelengths that the phat equation predicts will cause "LENR" by creating R-electrons/UDH. Clusters of UDHs have been measured by Miley et al. These cluster act the same way the hydrogen infested EVO of Ed Storms do. However, clusters in metals cause more fusion of metal in the lattice to itself than hydrogen to hydrogen fusion. When metals (Ni or Pd) fuse they produce elements that will fission. The majority of the transmutation results from fission.
The major disadvantage of fusion due to electro-gravity is that the energy from the fusion and/or fission is captured by the extreme gravity of the cluster of an R-electron produced planetoid. For example, a very precise and accurate mass balance and stoichiometry of intermediate fusion data from Santilli reveals that mass loss due to transmutation should have produced in two minutes, in magnitude, about 96 million BTU but only produced about 3000 BTU.
The mystery of the missing energy leads us to Matsumoto. When an electro-gravity cluster is capturing the energy from the nuclear reactions, it is converting energy to mass as phat energy bound in warp field(s). Matsumoto found that cold fusion produced a unique form of radiation which produced images rather that tracks on photographic film.
To produce an image the radiation, needs to be a light source that is captured by the interface of the film. The light source then radiates to develop grain by grain an image. By analyzing these images, Matsumoto decides that the radiation is neutron stars created by electronuclear gravity that collapse into blackholes which electro-gravity blackholes are a source of radiation. The radiation is something like Hawking radiation.
One can verify if electro-gravity blackholes are produced from R-electron based neutrons because these "pseudo" neutrons would exist in countable numbers. Further, electro-gravity blackholes would radiate out of existence and produce an image which would be sized as integer values of a number of "pseudo" neutrons from which they were composed. You can look up the images, measure them and produce the graph yourself. Here is what I got.
Rs is a calculated Schwarzschild radius for the electro-gravity blackhole which is based on some assumptions and use of the electro-gravitational constant in place of the universal gravitational constant. It would seem that Matsumoto is justified in claiming photographs of blackholes.
It follows that electro-gravity-based fusion/fission produces as it primary output a radiation that is consistent with radiation from blackholes as its major product.
Further one can use the Schwarzschild equation with a focus on an "in everything particle" to predict that these "in everything" particles are radiation from electro-gravity blackholes. This means that the "strange" radiation from "LENR" would have mass and can convert to energy to develop grain by grain an image.
The conversion of mass to energy is a form of electrochemistry, so the LEC is likely a result of this electrochemistry.
I realize this post is rather long, but I though most you might like a model that ties the various threads in this forum together. I tried to keep it short and focused. I could provide links to other threads to provide more details.