A number of recent papers are turning up on Google Scholar which fill in the theoretical gaps and broaden Holmlid's work with laser irradiation of dense hydrogen. This one will be of interest to a few here... OK... maybe only Axil and Bob Cook since it is pushing the limits. Apparently, the main premise is a version of the "Einstein Ring" around nucleons. Normally this is a large scale phenomenon of gravitational lensing. If transposed to quantum gravity, a virtual "black hole" becomes an operative black hole that exists temporarily as a result of a quantum fluctuation of spacetime. It can induce proton disintegration.
Anyway, even if you grow mentally numb at the mention of nano black holes, the important point is that the Holmlid niche is drawing significant and well reasoned interest from theoreticians around the World - at least the ones with tenure or who have retired. Here is the citation - there are several others. IMHO this is the most interesting thing happening in the field of LENR... by a mile. "Electrons Ejected Due of Laser Irradiation of Deuterons Layer on Metals Surface -A New Source of Instant Electrical Energy" by Stefan Mehedinteanu https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01319725v3
