A problem with so many discussions about technical matters here and other places is that people with little understanding believe what they have read from people and organizations with their own agendas and it becomes ingrained and internalized. Our own resident fusion “expert” starts his threads with a warning to those whose view are not in lock step with his own to not participate. Amazing!
If cold fusion worked the way it’s proponents claim it already did we would have as evidence some dead scientists and/or smoking craters. If you are claiming you released those amounts of energies it must have some observable physical effect or it is not what physicists and engineers would call energy.