Ø It is pretty much that simple, and it explains cold fusion not as fusion of deuterons but as fusion of Li-6 in the electrolyte.
Side note. There is a semantic issue here since the end product the helium nucleus is of lower mass than the reactant, Li-6 so this cannot be fusion. Technically LENR could be cold fission, instead of cold fusion. J BTW in case you were wondering, there is such a known phenomenon - called cold fission but it involves very heavy nuclei. This would be an entirely different version of it, if it were real. To be more exact, however, what we are surmising is cold-fusion-fission where lithium goes to carbon and then back to helium.
