Re: Hydrogen fusion

Gordon wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:11:02 GMT, Sam Wormley
<swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gordon wrote:
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.

Hydrogen fusion requires hight temperature and pressure.

Sam, I quite agree, but this may not be the only way to achieve
hydrogen fusion. Actually the effect of high temperature and
pressure is the very high relative velocity between two hydrogen
nuclei and the high probability of a direct collision that will
utilize this velocity (momentum) so jump the Coulomb barrier.

Is there any possibility of achieving this required high relative
velocity by means of a corona with two hydrogen nuclei moving
toward a negative electrode?

Gordon

No--the protons must be thrown TOGETHER with more energy than
the coulomb barrier that repels them from each other.
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