and imagine if the dumbass would just file a patent already and release the technology so thousands of other researchers could improve upon it...
Oh, and collect $billions ...
The patent office issued a ruling in the aftermath of Pons-Fleischmann that LENR patent applications were no more welcome than perpetual motion machine applications.
Hence, the work has to be carried out as trade secret. There are, however, open source LENR efforts in the birthing stage.