Well - not so fast. How can you assume LENR?
Most of us here "want to believe" it is LENR, but where is the evidence of anything nuclear? Are you saying that excess heat over and above chemical makes it LENR by default? Maybe - It is clearly "new physics" but the lack of radioactivity at the demo (Levi paper) makes it less likely to be nuclear. This leaves three or four basic categories of non-nuclear or crossover reactions, as options: 1) QM based "near nuclear tunneling" but w/o nuclear alteration 2) Mills, or fractional ground states 3) Langmuir/Moller atomic hydrogen (active Casimir heating) 4) ZPE (other variations of the above) including Heffner's "nuclear ZPE" 5) MIMS - or "metastable inner-shell molecular states". This is really another name for "ballotechnics" aka "supra-chemistry" since it deals with inner orbitals. 6) Any combination or permutation, including ZPE reactions which eventually accelerate nuclear decay to stable isotopes . there is plenty of overlap in this list - and most of these have been considered to be in the fold of LENR in the past, by default, but clearly the inventor has said over and over that this is not related to "cold fusion" . but also that he doesn't understand it. .and in any event, there is too little real data is available to contradict Rossi's own appraisal that it is not cold fusion. IOW it could be a completely new reaction, the 'black swan' or 'Goodyear moment' which was not a predictable outcome from the P&F experiment. Jones From: Peter Gluck Interesting idea, but the Rossi cell was predictable. Globally we ( a rather small group) knew that LENR is possible in principle but very difficult to achieve in practice- at a technologically valuable level. Peter Jones Beene wrote: The 'Black Swan Theory' of human development was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to better explain the role of "freaky" randomness in history and science. Not just 'improbability' but utter unpredictability on one level, yet with the kind of hidden influences that makes it stochastic instead of pure randomness.
