Hydrogen fusion

What are the arguments and the mathematics contraindicating the
feasibility of producing hydrogen fusion by discharging a high dc
voltage corona within an enclosure filled with hydrogen gas. I'm
talking about producing hydrogen gas by ordinary electrolysis,
then venting this through a tube with an array of electrodes
penetrating the wall of the tube.

These electrodes are to be arranged such that alternate electrode
tips along the tube axis penetrate the tube wall from opposite
sides and the pointed tips are equally spaced and aligned along
the central axis of the tube. The electrodes are to be connected
to the high voltage power source such that the electrodes that
penetrate one side of the tube are positive and those from the
other side are negative.

Would the hydrogen atoms drift to a positive electrode, lose
their electron to this positive electrode, then, in the ionized
state, be driven away from the positive electrode while being
drawn toward the negative electrode.

Is it remotely possible that some of the ionized hydrogen nuclei
approaching a negative electrode from opposite directions would
collide with each other with enough momentum to overcome the
Coulomb barrier and fuse into deuterium, then repeat the process,
wherein some of the deuterium ions would be bumped up to
tritium..,,and so on to the deuterium - tritium fusion.

There are so many possibilities, using different hydrogen gas
pressure, electrode spacing and voltage values. I can't work out
the math on this well enough to convince myself that it is not
workable.

Gordon
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