It is proposed that Cold fusion can occur in
metal by D+ hopping to T sites with D–
on the metal
surface. In this mechanism, D+ hopping is assisted by the
Coulomb attractive force between D+
and D–
, suggesting
that control of the positive surface potential of the metal is
important. D2 thus formed at surface T site is compressed
by T-site atoms due to the size difference between D2 and
the original T-site volume. Compression of the D2 covalent
bonds creates a small D2 atom with Electron Deep Orbit
(EDO) at a radius of a few femtometers, which is small
enough to completely shield the Coulomb repulsive force
between d-d and thus leads to the fusion. Hydrogen with
DEO is verified by the experimental data of “high
compressibility of hydrogen” and soft x-ray spectra which
roughly matched the theoretical value of EDO, and
500keV broad peak can be the evidence of EDO. Because
the current Cold fusion reactors are based on
Fleischmann and Pons Effect (FPE), they have serious
issues originating from voltage conditions of D absorption
under the electrolysis condition which has the negative
metal surface potential because the real Cold fusion needs
the positive metal surface potential. Thus, it is very
difficult to trigger fusion due to the voltage condition
mismatch. Therefore, FPE needs a very high temperature
by a strong local resistive heating of Pd Rod caused by the
insulating film growth on fragments of Pd surface during
D charging. The inhomogeneous insulating film growth is
caused by very high electric field and by its variation
caused by the Pt wire anode cage. Thus, I propose the
novel Cold fusion reactor based on the real Cold fusion
mechanism, which fixes the most of the issues of reactors
based on FPE.
Keywords : LENR, Cold Fusion, EDO, Electron Deep Orbit, Coulomb Repulsive Force Shielding, Fleischmann and Pons Effect, Biological Transmutation