It could be. That was the mistake Pons & Fleischmann made, saying that it was a nuclear process. If it IS a super-duper-chemical process, it has the potential to replace all coal-fired power plants in the world, as well as bring electricity generation down to the level of single households.
But you are an accountant type and know what rounding errors are. To me, 99.9999% of these are the equivalent of rounding errors. Rounding errors do not MIRACULOUSLY produce new wealth and heat measurement errors do not MIRACULOUSLY produce new energy either.
THERE I SAID IT, just told the free energy types that Santa might be a fake and it’s really their parents leaving the half eaten cookie out.