the Physics of Fleischmann Pons Fusion

Since the year 2002 the evidence for the fusion of deuterium to He⁴, inside the palladium lattice, has been undeniable. It became obvious that the community of physicists was so heavily invested in denial that no one was going to invest the time required to figure out the mechanism. The risks of failure were just too great, and the criticism too scathing.

We here at Icha looked at this as an opportunity. There was a very good chance that this was not a difficult problem, as very few people had even attempted a committed effort. We committed. We were chemical process researchers with little training in quantum physics, but many years of process research experience. As it turns out the quantum mechanics is fairly basic, and the hard won process experience invaluable in picking through the clues from the literature. 

You will note that on the second page of the site there is a rough outline (it will evolve some) of the work we have done. We will fill out this web site over the coming months with the conclusion from our work. You will find that the basic theory for overcoming the coulomb potential is straight forward, as are the calculations. There is nothing above the undergraduate quantum physics level. The macroscopic, or chemical, factors controlling the reaction are not so well understood quantitatively. It is our hope that enough interest will be generated to bring the physicist community to bear. I am confident that they will make short and accurate work of the untidy macroscopic modeling. This will require a fair amount of Density Function Theory calculations that seem to be fairly common these days.

We hope to see you here often as we tell our story, and welcome your comments and criticism. We hope to start in the next day or so with a description of the experimental data that we can semi-quantitatively describe, using no fudge factors. We are new to the web and blog world as producers of content, so please be patient, its a good story.