“Mini-tokamak” is a bit of a misnomer, since it’s not compression by high kinetic energy causing the fusion, but removal of the Coulomb barrier due to quantum effects in the plasmoid which allows the nuclei to hit each other.
removal of the Coulomb barrier due to quantum effects in the plasmoid which allows the nuclei to hit each other.
***Ah hah. I knew there was sumthin about that theory rattling around. Look at Bose-Einstein Condensates — they are known to reduce the Coulomb barrier by orders of magnitude.
https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/5859-1-dimensional-lenr-theories/
The trick is to treat the math on a one-to-one basis, such as in a Luttinger Liquid and set up a linear Bose-Einstein Condensate.
Hence my Vibrating 1Dimensional Luttinger Liquid Bose-Einstein Condensate [V1DLLBEC] theory.
Mini-Tokomak reminds me of this exchange I had on LENR-Forum
what if we would exclude the 3D concept from 1D fusion completely and leave atom nuclei colliding along long rigid chains like sorta miniature pistons? And this is IMO just what the cold fusion is actually all about: the miniaturized one-dimensional piston fusion, arranged with single rows of atoms! I collected multiple indicia for this mechanism already, but IMO the most prominent one is the Unified Gravity approach to cold fusion, which consists of shooting protons into surface of molten lithium (BTW note how thorough and specific this particular patent application actually is!). During this the fusion readily runs in high yield under formation of alpha particles according two main reactions:
p+6Li —> 3He (2.3 MeV) + 4He (1.7 MeV) and p+7Li —> 4 He (8.6 MeV) + 4He (8.6 MeV)
This type of fusion resembles many unsuccessful attempts for hot fusion in colliders, but the spectacular point here is, only very low energy of protons is actually required here for to have fusion running - just about one thousand of Volts or even less - so that we can really talk about “cold” fusion here, despite it’s still classical “accelerator” based approach like the fusor.