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Though fusion reactions occur almost ubiquitously in the Universe and can be studied quite easily in the laboratory, power production by light-element fusion is an extremely difficult technological task, as confirmed by the difficulties met by the large collaborations engaged in USA, USSR, Japan and Europe to reach the scientific breakeven. Paradoxically, while the difficulties of obtaining power from hydrogen-isotope fusion progressively increase as the breakeven is gradually approached, the number of phenomena where such fusion is claimed to be observed in low-energy experiments is steadily increasing. This work reviews the status of cold-fusion and related phenomena, discusses the ‘warm’ fusion resulting from the impact of heavy water clusters onto titanium deuteride, and eventually proposes a unifying model explaining not only claims of cold or warm fusion, but also the possible causes of their poor experimental reproducibility.
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Cerofolini, C.F., Para, A.F. (1992). Alternatives in Low Energy Fusion?. In: Benedek, G., Schneuwly, H. (eds) Exotic Atoms in Condensed Matter. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76370-0_10
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