2000 Volume 76 Issue 3 Pages 35-40
We propose a coherent fusion mechanism of deuterons in the paradium (Pd) double structure cathode as the source of extra heat generation in the heavy water electrolysis. In the course of searching a possible mechanism for deuteron fusion into alpha particle without emitting energetic photons nor protons/ neutrons, we arrive at the coherent deuteron process, where the deuterons participate coherently to the fusion in the Bose-Einstein condensed state with the help of alphas of large binding energy. The extra fusion energy is immediately carried away by a macroscopic amount of deuterons. The fusion rate comes out to be very high and we conjecture that the experimental fusion rate is governed by the rate of deuteron ions to be trapped by Pd powders.