Cold fusion/Theory/Workshop

I announced on the private CMNS list that I'd be taking questions and answers to Wikiversity. In the following, questions and answers are anonymized, but on permission from any of the authors, they will be attributed. So one scientist wrote:

These are some of the things that I would like to know about each theory that would allow me to compare and contrast:

1) Classification [what is the basic approach]

2) Key assumptions

3) Central equation (this may overlap with 1)

4) Major predictions

Another added two:

5) Describe your explanation in simple, qualitative terms.

6) How is your explanation similar to other LENR explanations? In what ways does it differ?

Another came at the question from a different perspective:

A major criterion for evaluating theory is comparison with the observations we expect it to "explain".

1) A failure to observe intense penetrating radiations.

2) A failure to observe secondary hot reactions (recoil etc.)

3) Why the reaction takes place mainly outside the bulk.

4) How tritium / neutrons are produced.

5) How energy is transmitted to the lattice as heat.

6) How the above can occur in both light and heavy hydrogen systems.

7) Iwamura's transmutations.

Some answers appeared, which will be given on appropriate pages, starting with /Phuson theory. That first answer gave additional questions or issues:

8) Control of LANR Reactions

9) Role of Internal Flux (Metamaterials)

10) Surmounting of Coulomb Barrier

Then an answer explored the foundations of Storms' theory, see /Storms.