Re: SF Cold Fusion

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First, I think you mean muon.

Indeed. I'm a German native speaker and the German word is Myon with a
y. Didn't occur to me to check the English spelling. We also pronounce
it "Müon" rather than "myuu'on". ;)

Second, what do you mean by "gets stuck on a core"? The thing that
makes muon-catalyzed fusion impractical is
that muons have short half-lives: 1.56 us.

According to my (German) source, the muon's life is 2,2 µs,

Note that a half-life of 1.56 µs is the same as a mean lifetime of 2.2 µs
(the latter is larger than the former by a factor of ln 2)

which
would be theoretically sufficient to catalyze 2000 fusion reactions
(if the Ds and Ts draw numbers and line up in an orderly fashion).
The effect that actually prevents this is called "sticking", the muon
equivalent to regular electron capture. Since the muon's orbital is
much close to the core due to its mass, it gets captured far more
easily than an electron. And as I previously cited, this occurs on
average after the 167th fusion; just 6 fusions short of a positive net
energy yield.

This figure for "cycles" suggests that you're just dividing the energy
required to make the muon by the energy released in D-T fusion, which
doesn't make much sense at all.

Nothing like that. I don't even quite get what one should have to do
with the other. The muon acts as a catalyst; it attaches to a Tritium
core, induces fusion, is released in the process and can attach to a
new T until it gets captured. That's why I call it cycles.

There is a reasonably good Wikipedia article on Muon-catalyzed fusion that
matches what I recollect from past investigation.


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