In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:20:18 -0700: Hi, [snip] >The complete hypothesis >envisions two steps - a driver, which is beta decay, and then subsequent >fusion which is (substitute) muon catalyzed or fast electron catalyzed, >depending on which aspect one chooses to emphasize. [snip] Like all fast charged particles, electrons tend to lose most of their energy ionizing other atoms. Also, it's not clear to me why a fast electron should be able to catalyze a nuclear reaction any better than a slow one.
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