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There’s a supposed photo of the apparatus at:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/News.htm

It reminds me of a wry observation from the F-P days.

The evangelists for CF (mostly physical chemists) were
convinced CF was real, but were taking no precautions
against radiation in their attempts to confirm.

The skeptics (mostly physicists) were convinced CF was
illusory, but did shield their experiments, just in case.

Remember when Edison said he'd make a generator that was more than 50% efficient and the electrical experts of his day said that it was against the laws of nature and that Edison should learn science? He was still getting bad press claiming that it was all nonsense at the same time that he had already made a generator more than 90% efficient. The problem wasn't in the nature of things. The problem was in some people's understanding of the nature of things. The same things were also said of heavier-than-air flight.

Randall Mills will probably have a bigger breakthrough with another, already-demonstrated, process sooner than these guys.

The scientists should keep up the research. Its clear that excess heat occurs at certain times, but the mechanism isn’t known. But that it because we really don’t understand the subatomic structures and their actions as much we pretend to. Some of the trendy Quantum mechanics structures although stemming from brilliant minds sometimes seem like voddoo hand waving and invention to me. (although I am just a lowly engineer, not a Physicist )

For example One of the big arguments that scientists give against Cold Fusion is that the average density of deuterium atoms in the palladium rod seems vastly insufficient to force pairs of nuclei close enough for fusion to occur according to mechanisms known to mainstream theories. The average distance is approximately 0.17 nanometers, a distance at which the attractive strong nuclear force cannot overcome the Coulomb repulsion. Deuterium atoms are closer together in D2 gas molecules, which do not exhibit fusion.

Well to that I say that first off the Coulomb repulsion is normally only valid for static (non moving) charges. Once the charges begin moving and create magnetic fields then all bets are off. In my opinion it could very well be the correct alignment or movement —and thus the creation of a unique magnetic field or alignment— that is required and that pops up from time to time and creates the required fusion and excess heat. Obviously lowering the Coulomb repulsion in effect changes the distance or space between the Deuterium atoms. The effect of that space being a square term working against the charge attraction which is is linear. I wonder how much they have experimented with magnetic fields around the cold fusion rods in the heavy water. I would think there would be promise there.

Also the scientists who report getting the excess heat to occur always report a linear increase in helium products. So its the conversion from Deuterium into helium that is assumed to occur. But there is danger in ASSUMING that it is the Deuterium combinations alone that produce the helium products. I say this because its easy to make the assumption the the Deuterium combination will produce helium products or else tritium. Naturally one would include that the only way helium products could be produced would be the Deuterium combination, but its usually these kinds of assumptions that throw up road blocks. I wonder if the experimenter can calculate a decrease in the Deuterium? Most likely this is the cause but that should be verified.

Anyway its interesting and I would love to see more solid funding on this kind of research.