In Brillouin Energy's "updated hypothesis" titled "The Quantum Reaction Hypothesis" <http://www.brillouinenergy.com/IE82.html>, on page 22, they state:
*The distance between the lattice nuclei and the migrating hydrogen atoms make the probability of combining with another hydrogen much higher than combining with Pd.* Apparently, they consider this sentence uniquely significant in among all that appear in the 29 page paper. The only other underline texts are on page 25: *This higher value was used to increase my confidence of the effect possibly having commercial value.* and page 29: *commercially viable * Both of these latter underline texts relate to the commerciality, not hypothesis. Thus the most important aspect of their "hypothesis" is the segregation of the neutrons, thus-produced, from heavy nuclei (for the obvious reason that radioactive products would have a very negative impact on their bottom line; not to mention the absence of any observations supporting such heavy nuclei absorption of neutrons). At this point we are enmeshed in quantitative analysis of the hypothesis. For would-be investors (venture, angel, adventure or otherwise), this is the point at which they wisely say: "Call me when you've validated your model and can fully inform my consultants -- under NDA if necessary." However, we have Michael McKubre taking the empirical results seriously. McKubre is laudably committed to empirical validation and he is acutely aware of the ease with which hypotheses may be concocted compared to empirical validation. With McKubre's involvement here is likely enough reproduciblity to lend proximate validity to the model. Wake up, investors. Get your consultants working on at least formulating the questions to ask.
