Years ago (~25) the trendiest technological breakthrough in LENR was the microbeads of James Patterson.
There is some similarity in assessing that episode to the present case of Mizuno, even as we are anticipating a better outcome. Here is a poorly written Wiki page on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson_power_cell Which gives way too much credit to the skeptics. Patterson was doing nano before nano became cool, as they say … ahead of the world-changing advancements that nanotechnology now seems to be opening up (even though we are not there yet). There is little doubt that he had strong gain at times but could not reproduce it himself. Moreover, Patterson was secretive, and failed to grasp the operative mechanism of his own technique. Possibly there was a simple detail which went overlooked… like a tap water rinse. In retrospect – and assuming Mizuno is replicated – the moral to the story could be this – drop the secrecy, drop the vanity and greed, and let others have full and complete understanding of the anomaly you have found. In the Patterson CETI cell, it could very easily have been the case that there was the same overlooked detail like calcite, which went unnoticed. Moreover, even today with the benefit of several decades of mixed results in LENR there could easily be another key ingredient besides or in addition to the those which are obvious - which Mizuno is/was not completely aware of – even now. There was way too much secrecy back then in the Patterson era – and millions went unclaimed because of what can be best described as a failure to see the big picture, Mizuno, to his credit sees the big picture and yet there may still be annoying details out there which are lurking. It seems that in the nano world, the nano-god giveth and the nano-god taketh way… meaning that something as simple as going from 100 nm in thickness down to 30 nm is the difference between no gain and large gain. The recent video from DeNeum in Estonia of all places, is the type of thing which could really make a difference if it turns out to be even half as robust as the Mizuno efforts. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good vid is worth 100,000. In fact, perhaps that video will spur many more of them along the way towards eventual success – and especially from Master Mizuno himself. Jones