Ed Storms just gives us one out of a potential million LENR reaction results that have been seen in LENR experimentation. Ed never wanted to consider transmutation as a valid consequence of the LENR reaction. By embracing transmutation, Ed would need to explain countless variations and permutations of the way protons and neutrons could come together as a result of a LENR reaction.
The Mizuno results showing an endothermic reaction is not possible in Ed Storms theory. The most flexible explanation of the LENR reaction is one that entails a powerful bolt of energy impacting on an unspecified but variable pile of atoms that result in any sort of recombination of any number of protons and neutrons coming back together. This powerful bolt of energy would supply the power to permit endothermic nuclear processes to proceed. LENR is more like an atom smasher then a tokomak. This contemplation of an endothermic mechanism is a catastrophic sacrilege of epic proportions for Ed because it violates his beloved and inviolable laws of thermodynamics. But the Mizuno results still must be explained by a global theory of LENR.
