LENR transmutation may be subject to quantum mechanical superposition. It is now my beleive that transmutation of elements produces little or no excess energy. This must be the case, since LENR active microbes would burn up when they convert elements through transmutation.
In the process of transmutation from the LENR reaction, there must be some sort of energy minimization process at play. The elements that are produced are the elements that render the least energy in the process of transmutation. Another more likely possibility is that the energy created from the transmutation process may come in the form of particle creation. For example, muons may be created and their energy may be released far from the location of their creation when they decay into electrons. If this is the case, a magnetic bottle would be a way to keep the energy contained in these reaction created particles close to the point of their creation so that this energy can be captured. But there is a complication, there is experimental evidence from the LION reaction ash analysts that transmutation of elements does not happen until the LENR reaction terminates. The transmuted elements are held in a state of superposition until the LENR reaction completes. If particles are produced through the LENR reaction, it may involve some sort of weird superposition process in which the muons travel far (many miles) from their point of origin as ghost particles that only become manifest when the LENR reaction terminates. This brings to mind the electric arc iron smelter in India in which carbon is transmuted to iron by the many tons. I had wondered how the workers at that plant survived all those muons and why all that transmutation process alternatively did not produce gigawatts of energy. Observation of Anomalous Production of Si and Fe in an Arc Furnace Driven Ferro Silicon Smelting Plant at levels of Tons per day http://coldfusioncommunity.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/244_JCMNS-Vol24.pdf
