the Physics of Fleischmann Pons Fusion

I know you all out there in internet land think this guy is another nut case. And you should. When you have clowns out there like Randel Mills inventing a whole new Quantum Mechanics to explain things; well you have to be leery. Our efforts here are much more sanguine. We are using just the basic rules laid down in all the introductory QM texts: no hydrinos here!

We do promise to explain all the "data to reconcile". My favorite piece of data is the original melt down of Fleischmann and Pons. Think about it. This incident requires that the nuclear reactions continue, even after the piece of palladium melts. There isn't any lattice to couple to, so all the theories that try to couple energy to a lattice should probably start again. Either the reaction has nothing to do with the lattice, or there is an intermediate with a half life of at least many minutes. Of course this in direct contradiction of observations by the Navy, which give flashes of heat in less than a second...go figure. We think the lattice is important, so there must be an intermediate. When the intermediate explanation of both of these fell out of our model, we were pretty sure we were on the right track. You'll see that we get an intermediate, the Hed₂ molecule, which has several states of angular momentum. One state gives a half life ~mili-seconds the other ~10's of minutes to an hour. We are in the process of refining our calculations, hence the delay in publishing.

Anyway...the minutes to hour half life is the culprit responsible for the melt down. Here is a little prevue of the chain reaction dynamics that makes it all happen. If we start with 100 high energy helium atoms, we need a little over 50 to keep the reaction going. This is because each reaction will creat 2 high energy helium atoms. lets say we need 55 of the heliums to make it to the fusion reaction. It takes exactly 50 to maintain the recycle, but we want a melt down, so lets make it 55.

Now if 80% of the reacting Helium gives a half-life of 0.001 seconds and 20% gives a half-life of 10 minutes we get:

55 *.8= 44 reacting with 0.001 sec. half-life

55*0.2 =11 with 10 minute half life

The result is 55 recycled heliums that act pretty much like they all have a half life of 10 minutes. This isn't too different than the moderating reaction in nuclear reactors using uranium. There is an intermediate neutron emitter with a couple minute half life, which makes throttling a nuclear reactor possible. If all the reactions were very fast, the reaction would be a bitch to control; like the A-bomb... or like the little flashes that the Navy finds. These are caused by a very high efficiency of recycle; say 70 of the 100 helium (we will explain the efficiecy difference in amuch latter chapter: its pretty straight forward). In this case you get:

70*0.8=56 reacting with 0.001 sec half life.

70*0.2-14 with 10 minute.

In this case the 0.001 half life has enough recycle to carry on its own chain reaction. So after about 200 cycles of this (time =200*0.001=.2 seconds) there are (2*0.56)^200~7e9 reactions per cycle. That's more than enough to make a flash, and in less than a second.

In the case of FLeischmann and Pons melt down, they had a good efficiency, but still at the level of the 10 minute controlling half life. When the palladium started to melt, there was still a lot of half life to go, and nothing to stop the already formed intermediate. Pretty cool eh!.