If you try to follow all of the papers that come out in alternative energy - particularly the ones with an impressive or new slant on LENR - then in recent years you probably noticed a large number of Russian papers with impressive mathematical backing - yet were certainly not accurate in the conclusion.
They seem to be strong on math-manipulation and short on experiment in the new Russia. My mind went numb trying to follow this "Main Formalism" argument in the paper below, so I skipped ahead looking for the non-existent experiment . nada . but even so, something tells me that there could be a glimmer of truth to the hypothesis presented. I do not know for sure where this paper falls, in terms of insight and importance, but a simple confirming experiment would be nice, and perhaps also extremely easy to pull off - http://versita.metapress.com/content/qj816664m0302032/fulltext.pdf . if you are in a country with lots of nuclear reactors, and claim to work for an "Institute of power engineering for the special application" - then it is almost a de minimis effort to find a source of neutrinos, and almost silly not to have taken a measurement of a simple operating LENR cell placed either near or away from the reactor, free of gammas etc but with an enhanced neutrino population - in order to get a quick determination of a significant difference that would give you some small real-world credibility. No, it would not prove anything, but if positive it adds some confirmation to the formalism - and that would lead to a proper experiment, perhaps one funded by DoE. One almost suspects that an experiment was performed with null results, but the authors were so proud of their formalism that they published anyway. Jones
