Gamow came up with this way back in the 1920s to show how stars burn hydrogen, et al to make light and heat for billions of years.
Then, in the 1930s his thesis was expanded and began being used as a cite to support "laws" (specific relationships that experimentation was proving to be true in all cases).
About 1939 folks in government realized we'd get involved in a world war then looming (and actually starting) so we'd need something pretty serious in terms of new weapons. That's when all the big money started getting aimed at FISSION BOMBS.
From that point on fusion was pretty much abandoned in nuclear energy discussions ~ as far as we know.
I suspect it was not abandoned but simply hidden under a screen of "we got tokamak", "we got inertial containment", "we got this", "we got that".
Now it's coming out ~ a secret too important and advanced to be kept!
There are some other secrets out there. These 1MWh battery systems that've been peddled along with the windmills ~ if you take a look at the latest technology behind them you realize they are now maintaining a 1MWh charge for up to 5.5 hours worth of energy!
That's about 10 TIMES as much as a comparable trailer load of equipment could handle as recently as this time last year. Used to take a parking lot full of boxes to deal with 1MWh, and that was with a lot of wasted energy.
Any time there seems to be a 10 fold improvement in a process you really should look a little harder to see where that improvement is coming from.
So, how do they really do it? And why wasn't that pretty obvious earlier. Interesting that Rossi's 1MWh device looks on the inside almost identical to a recent "towable" 1MWh battery with 5.5 hours worth of power.
Does he actually have a battery? How big is his LENR power Module? Is it really little more than a brass pipe with a couple of wires? Or what about his wristwatch? There's no reason a sufficiently powerful fusion device has to be large, or even hooked up directly to the rest of the system ~ e.g. a battery array that modulates the power output for useful purposes, to wit, heating water.
Or, as some of these guys propose, Rossi's system may be a scam of some kind ~ maybe just a battery ~
I wish I was an expert on every technology known to man.
How about you speak to the dozens of good, government paid scientists who confirm LENR and confidence in LENR experiments? Bushnell, McKubre, Focardi, Mills, Miley, Ahern, Levi, Pinarelli, Hegelstein, Josephson, Kullander, etc. Or is rossi-ad hominem your only program?
“He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes” Fred Allen