“Joseph Zawodny, a senior research scientist with NASA’s Langley Research Center, endorsed LENRs, writing that they “could replace coal, oil, [and] natural gas-fired power plant heat sources with minimal impact to the extant generation and distribution infrastructure. . . .HERE is a link to the article (or an article) which uses the quote you mentioned.
Notice that he says "could", not "will". This is him speculating on what could happen if someone builds a working LENR reactor. You are reading way too much into this if you think it means that this will happen.
He thinks he can build one, as soon as someone gives him $25 million to build a prototype.
I know that I can build one for $25 million. It may take me the rest of my life, but I promise that I will have a working unit by the time I die, or the investors can have whatever money is left.
I’ll do it for only $20MM! ‘Course, it’ll probably take every bit as long as it would you... :-)
He thinks he can build one, as soon as someone gives him $25 million to build a prototype.
***Heck, I can do that. I’d buy 50 units from Rossi for $2M, pocket $23M and 48 units, show off 2 units and go into business modifying ECats for custom use.