That’s how stupid the arguments have been towards LENR. Or are you saying that LENR Luddites can’t possibly be that stupid?
I'm really old fashioned, so within a few inches of my hand I can only put my fingers on several bajillion devices based on -- and designed as a result of -- quantum mechanics. You know, pedestrian things that certainly didn't change the world like lasers, semiconductors. That type of non-world-changing stuff.
I thought you claimed to be a Double-E, but apparently in your EE curriculum you didn't learn about transistors, LED's, photocells... That's understandable -- they're REALLY NEW tech that Eugene Wigner and his students and later followers like Shottky did the physics for, oh, just eighty years ago. But your university will get around to teaching that stuff someday.
You learned EE at Rowan I'm guessing, right? [School Motto: YEARS OF FICTIONAL PHYSICS FOR THE MASSES, BUT NOT ONE COURSE IN QUANTUM MECHANICS FOR EE's.]
These devices aren't "demo'd" in fictional presentations, by the way. If you're in doubt about them head on over to Wal-Mart or RadioShack and have a look, or pick up a couple. Not as world-changing as LENR is [someday, real soon now] going to be. But kind of fun all the same.