Thermal energy generation in the earth

Abstract

Abstract. We show that a recently introduced class of electromagnetic composite particles can explain some discrepancies in observations involving heat and helium released from the earth. Energy release during the formation of the composites and subsequent nuclear reactions involving the composites are described that can quantitatively account for the discrepancies and are expected to have implications in other areas of geophysics -for example, a new picture of heat production and volcanism in the earth is presented.

Brief communication: Electron pair donors and Earth's energy generation

“…The assumption was that the electron pairs were delivered in a collision between a proton Figure 1) to form either a proton tresino or a deuteron tresino. The ensuing reaction dynamics and energy generation then follows the same reaction chains as those of our earlier paper (Mayer and Reitz, 2014). Unfortunately, the microphysics of the formation of the Cooper pairs is itself complex because of the physical processes, the materials, and the spatial length scales may all be diverse even in laboratory experiments, which by the way, are generally done at low temperatures, as described in the overview paper of (Hirsh, Maple and Marsiglio , 2015).…”

“…Cooper pairs form in the Earth materials in some situations and if a sufficient amount of acidified water is present, they can form tresinos in collisions, thereby driving the sequence of reactions that we described in (Mayer and Reitz, 2014).…”

“…This Brief Communication presents a series of model calculations for the electron pair donor densities required for tresino thermal energy generation in the Earth. The crucial density of electron donors is determined from the ratio of He This Brief Communication describes a new proposal relating to tresino formation-hence to thermal energy generation (Mayer and Reitz, 2014) in the Earth; it represents an extension of our prior work on the thermal energy generation in the Earth. In our NPG paper, we made an assumption regarding the collisions that gave rise to the transfer of a pair of electrons required to form 10 a tresino, hence energy generation.…”

“…It has proved useful to examine a series model calculations of the helium isotope ratio because this ratio can be traced back to the amount of electron-pair donor density at the start of the tresino energy release. It has been instructive to use the tresino reaction dynamics of our paper (Mayer and Reitz, 2014) to examine the effect of differing levels of water for proton and deuteron tresino formation that generate the He isotopes. In particular, the deuteron tresino nuclear reaction chain 5 that results in the level of the helium isotopes produced, is sensitive to the starting value of the electron-pair donor density.…”

The d/h Ratio and the Heating of the Early-Earth

“…Our recent paper Mayer and Reitz (2014) hereafter M&Rb, presented a new picture of the Earth's heating in our era. The present paper, however, examines the implications of the same Earth heating to the issue of the d/h ratio and heating in the early-Earth.…”