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[UncleAl]

Here is your cold fusion:

1) Prolonged high current density electrolyis of LiOH electrolyte in D2O. No other cation will "work."
2) Palladium cathode.
3) Lithium metal only slowly reacts with water.
4) A lithium-rich cathode rind builds up then explosively alloys with the palladium.

Pd-Li alloys are used as brazes. The alloys' melting points are around 1000 C, Pd melts at 1555 C.. The dissolution is insanely exothermic as a Lewis acid-base reaction. If you spear a chunk fo sodium on a knife point and plunge it into a mercury pool the mercury boils. Cold fusion is simply bad chemistry. Nuclear evidence claims have all been repeatedly, exhaustively disproven.