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agomez314
on Sept 23, 2020
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Lattice Confinement Fusion
Palladium can store incredible amounts of hydrogen within its crystal lattice - was Tony Stark right all along?
pfdietz
on Sept 24, 2020
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The nuclei in hydrogen-laden palladium are still on the order of an angstrom apart. For fusion to occur at a detectable rate they must be much closer.
jl2718
on Sept 24, 2020
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If you can get a muon between them they fuse spontaneously.
pfdietz
on Sept 24, 2020
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The muon pulls them 200x closer to each other.
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