You don’t seem to want to take cold fusion seriously. Please leave these LENR threads. I ask politely. Look at the updated thread trolling rules from JimRob.
When someone asks you to leave, then leave. ~Jim Robinson
You misread me. That post it in response to Jamestown1630’s post #4. Nothing more, nothing less.
Back in the day I was right in there with Fleischmann and Pons, I proposed here on FR that the mechanism was the hydrogen/deuterium was crowded close together in the platinum, and that those atoms lost their close association with their own electrons in the sea of electrons that define a metal. Effectively naked nuclei crammed together.
That, to me, sounds like a recipe for fusion.
I further speculated that the history of the platinum was crucial, the structure needed to be just right, perhaps a very fine grained structure with zillions of grain boundaries to gather hydrogen would work better than a single crystal chunk? That’s why there was little success in duplicating their work.
Just my 2ยข. I want cold fusion to get figured out and go commercial!