That IS interesting!
Indeed.
However, if what I suspect is happening, is happening, then it isn't "cold fusion".
It may not be fusion of any sort, although I wouldn't rule out the possibility.
I'm tempted to call it induced light element fission of carbon made somehow unstable.
This was something I was thinking about recently anyway. I was considering the proton / boron reaction, and let me digress long enough to explain what that is:
The proton is a hydrogen atom stripped of its electron. When it collides ( and yes it takes some doing to make it collide) with a boron eleven nucleus (80% of boron is boron eleven), the resulting "massé" particle, quite temporarily made into a carbon atom, then splits apart into three helium ions, (alpha particles), traveling very energetically.So basically my musing was in the form of "what would it take to get ordinary carbon to act like this energized and unstable carbon, and to spontaneously split apart into three stable helium nuclei?"
I'm sure all of you spend your quiet moments considering similar things. Maybe that's what they put into Harry's magic wand, you know; a little decaborane, some palladium salt, give it a shake and *poof!*, Olivander's shop is in chaos!
Anyway, that's what I was thinking.
That's why I suggested adding the ten boron molecular analog of the hydrocarbon molecule decane, which is called decaborane. (Carbon chemistry -- after methane, ethane, propane ... then it continues on with the prefix changing to represent the number of carbon atoms e.g. hexane, heptane, octane, nonane, decane.)