Not sure what your point is. If anyone can come up with a consistently working technology, all I care about is the mass-energy balance and cents per kilowatt hour for electricity. The scientists can get into the details of the reaction rates, I’m concerned about consistency and cost.
For every known legitimate energy source, scientists can calculate reaction rates and energy output with a high degree of accuracy. That's how consistency and known costs are achieved. So can the same be done for LENR and cold fusion? I know it can be done for muon catalyzed cold fusion. That's how we know that muon catalyzed cold fusion uses more energy than it produces, every time, consistently.