“LENR has been validated.”
No observable energy generated.
http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/52/107301
The metadata is in the measurement/number of the Pr atoms created at this point. Obviously this scope is still at an early stage but it is a real validation and the next stages of operational and performance validation will spell out the values for you in greater detail when they are released. Given the economic and political storm this news will create, I hope we can have access to to follow up articles. I would imagine there are some people up at MIT who are having migraines about this. Maybe because the House of Saud has donated much to that school?
Wrong, of course. Many experiments have shown positive energy levels, some quite high. Yours is the typical knee-jerk response of those who have not bothered to read the actual published work on the experiments. Sufficient validated data is available for the Pd/D2 system to show that the major pathway yields He4, and that the calorimetry shows ~24 MEV/nucleon formed. Minor side reactions yield tritium, and a hodge-podge of adducts formed from other elements present.
The Ni/H2 system has less data on what the final product(s)are.
And I think we'll see working LENR reactors well before any thorium fission reactors can be brought to commercial reality (not because of a lack of technology, but politics and the green movement simply won't allow it. There are at least half a dozen companies pursuing commercialization of LENR(how many companies working on thorium reactors??)
Note....I'm not by any means anti-fission. When I got my PhD in chem, I actually minored in nuclear science, so I have a reasonable background in "things nuclear".