Electrochemically-enhanced nuclear fusion of deuterium (PDF)

Researchers report a benchtop fusion reactor which bombarded a palladium metal target with deuterium ions. These deuterium ions undergo deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion reactions within the palladium metal. Authors showed that the in situ electrochemical loading of deuterium into the palladium target resulted in a 15(2)% increase in D-D fusion rates. This experiment shows how electrochemical reactions at the eV energy scale can impact nuclear reactions at the MeV energy scale.

The prevailing theory is that LENR runs in nickel and palladium serves as a spillover catalyst concentrating hydrogen, compare also Kodama's theory. Weakest point of palladium based LENR technology are the bursts of energy released. Excess heat is increasing with increasing temperatures, which leads to local heat avalanches that might be destructive, as Fleischmann & Pons learned in a hard way.

According to my suggestions, multiple atoms must collide along a single line for to get the attenuation of momentum with "Astroblaster effect" (i.e. inverse Mossbauer lattice effect). It requires to have atoms locked in their positions along this line despite the thermal motion of atoms. The dislocation line is just the line of such an atoms. The atoms sitting along axis of screw dislocation are apparently subject of highest stress, so that they cannot wiggle in their positions and the axis of dislocation is the coldest place of crystal from thermodynamic perspective. In addition, we have to collide the atom nuclei of nickel with hydrogen nuclei (protons) for to achieve the cold fusion and these protons would naturally concentrate just along these dislocations and crystal boundaries - they will get oversaturated there, just because this place of lattice is coolest. You may also imagine, that the atom of metal which are most frustrated by their neighbors and which are therefore a subject of stress forces will have most of orbitals accessible for additional bonding. Another aspect of dislocations is simply steric: the atoms which get absorbed to metal surface will naturally follow steps and inner corners, because they would get adsorbed from multiple sides at the same moment, so that they will get concentrated there. See also:

• The general cold fusion theory aka the broad view of LENR
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