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By what mechanism do they expect stresses in rocks to produce electric fields?

All of this, and MORE can be explained by the Electric Universe Theory. Any gaps in EUT are filled in by TIMECUBE.

It's been a long time since I've visited that site. Looks like they've had a major redesign.

Here is your answer: http://www.electricuniverse.in...
The theory was discounted without any testing or any real discussion at all by the primary academic groups, but there is a fringe of physicists who have been actively working on this for several decades. They are considered lunatics by the establishment, but many of their predictions are proving to be true with newer evidence that leaves the establishment scrambling for a new "dark matter" to slap onto their theories.

You make good points on the limits of science. Is is possible there is no hot fusion in the sun, and duplicating such a non-existent phenomenon on Earth has been a fool's errand? See also:
http://www.thesunisiron.com/

I think it possible hydrogen may essentially outgas for statistical reasons at the surface of an iron Sun. It might also be cause by electric currents? http://www.electricuniverse.in...

Then the hydrogen fuses at the surface of the Sun's iron-nickel core. The same process may be happening at a lesser scale deep within the Earth (which has an iron-nickel core), both to cause the Earth's heat by LENR and also to produce upwelling hydrocabons from outgassed hydrogen from all the nickel-iron.

In general, the universe may be mostly iron. The history of the universe may be more about iron decaying into hydrogen (for whatever reasons), rather than hydrogen fusing into (eventually) iron.

The Earth from space looks like it is made of mostly air and water. You can't judge a large object by just what covers it. The sun's surface may be hydrogen, but we don't really know for sure what is inside -- it is all indirect guessing. What we know is that the Earth has an iron-nickel core. So why not the sun?

Science is full of data that gets reinterpreted decades later. It was well accepted the Sun was made of Iron until re-interpretation of data in the Early 1900s. Maybe it is time for another bug re-interpretation? Perhaps inspired by the recent scientific reports related to cold fusion / LENR?
http://lenr-canr.org/

Of course, I am at a loss how to disprove my hypothesis... Perhaps people here might suggest ways to do that.

Maybe an Electric Universe disciple.

No, it is definitely nuclear, assuming our sun is too.

Save your breath, this guy believes that the sun is not powered by fusion, but the external hand waving of the Sky God.
http://www.godsinc.net/content/solid-sun-and-simple-creation
http://www.electricuniverse.info/Electric_Sun_theory

Thanks for the speculations, and I'd encourage you to try some back on an envelope order-of-magnitude calculations to see which might make sense. For example, get a figure for the energy of an atomic bomb in some unit, and then find out the energy the sun puts out in one second in the same unit, and compare them.

Also, what may seem to make sense with today's physics might seem ludicrous with tomorrow's physics.

Maybe the sun is indeed a ball of iron.
    http://www.thesunisiron.com/

Or maybe cold fusion takes place at the Earth's core at the edge of a nickel-iron core?
    http://aleklett.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/the-sun-rossi%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Denergy-catalyzer%E2%80%9D-and-the-%E2%80%9Cneutron-barometer%E2%80%9D/#comment-5891

Or maybe we will tap zero-point energy reliably one day?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy

Or the universe is mostly shaped by electrostatics?
    http://www.electricuniverse.info/Electric_Sun_theory

Or the universe is a simulation:
    http://www.simulation-argument.com/

And so on.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. (Albert Einstein)"

Hope you keep imagining things. And think about ballpark calculations. And still hold on to your "roots" in humanity and day-to-day things like sunshine, vegetables, and laughter even when having imaginative "wings".

I'd like to know if there was any more evidence for this:
http://www.thesunisiron.com/
http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_sol01.htm
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/sun.htm
http://www.electricuniverse.info/Electric_Sun_theory