Of course it doesn’t impress you. You won’t be impressed until a LENR space shuttle crashlands on your lawn, and then you’ll just sue NASA because you never liked LENR in the first place.
If you’re honest, you’ll address this question: Does the fact that Rossi has some funding from verifiable, credible and ordinarily rational source mean that this forwards his claim?
The only thing that will forward his claim is to allow independent verification by reputable labs(plural, from different countries). You know that and yet you keep dodging the issue.