Re: cold nuclear fusion in palladium

verdigris wrote:
Pons and Fleischman used a palladium cathode in their cold fusion
experiment of 1989 (cathode immersed in heavy water,D20)and they said
that excess energy was released from the system.
Since 1989 lots of experiments have been done and some researchers
have agreed with the findings of Pons and Fleischman.
I have seen many explanations of why cold fusion can't take place
according to known physics but here is one suggestion I have as to why
it can!
Palladium metal is very resistant to fracturing.This means that
impurity atoms or ions face a high energy barrier to get into the
crystal lattice and distort the face-centred cubic arrangement,and
that it is difficult for defects to grow larger to cause fracturing.
But when an electric current flows through palladium metal (which has
hydrogen gas on its surface and inside it - palladium absorbs 900
times its own volume of hydrogen) hydrogen molecules and hydrogen ions
(which are present in the heavy water) are given the energy to distort
the metal structure and remain in situ.As time passes the number of
distortions and hence the potential energy of the palladium cathode
increases.At some critical point, the face-centred cubic arrangement
of palladium atoms is quickly restored
and the hydrogen molecules and ions are expelled from the palladium
cathode, as potential energy is released like a mini-earthquake.In a
cylindrical-shaped cathode the released energy could be focused at its
end or in the centre of the rod.In particular,

Then one might expect more fusion to occur if the rod tapers to a point
and hence increases the focus of any shock waves?

And possibly also for Palladium spheres as opposed to rods?

at some locations in the rod where deuterium molecules are located,
the focused energy could be sufficient to cause helium 4 to form.The
formation of helium inside the cathode would explain why nuclear
products have rarely been detected in the heavy water in experiments
of this type.

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