We can remember the participation of Carl Page to ICCF19 in Padua.
Here Carl Victor Page Jr confirm his interest, in Edge.org media, answering like many to the question
Quote
He answers here:
Display More
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Work And Could Supplant Fossil Fuels
Climate collapse demands a supply of energy that is far cheaper than fossil fuels, resistant to bad weather and natural disaster, and sustainable in fuel inputs and pollution outputs. Can a new poorly understood technology from a stigmatized field fulfil the need? The Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) could help at large scale very quickly.
[...]
In many experiments with LENR, observed excess heat drastically exceeds known or feasible chemical reactions. Experiments have gone from milliwatts to hundreds of watts. Ash products have been identified and quantitatively compared to energy output. High energy radiation has been observed, and is entirely different than hot fusion.
Dr. McKubre at SRI International teased out the required conditions out of the historical data. To bring forth LENR reactions that produce over-unity energy, a metal lattice heavily loaded with Hydrogen isotopes, driven far out of equilibrium by some excitation system involving proton flux and probably electromigration of lattice atoms as well.
A great quantitative characterization of the outputs was Dr. Miles' meticulous 1995 experiment at China Lake. LENR releases Helium-4 and heat in the same proportion as familiar hot fusion, but neutron emissions and gamma rays at least 6 orders of magnitude less than expected.
Successful excitation systems included heat, pressure, dual lasers, high currents and overlapping shock waves. Materials have been treated to create and manipulate flaws, holes, defects, cracks, and impurities, increase surface area, and provide high flux of protons and electron current. Solid transition metals host the reaction, including Nickel and Palladium.
Ash includes ample evidence of metal isotopes in the reactor that have gained mass as if from neutron accumulation, as well as enhanced deuterium and tritium. Tritium is observed in varying concentrations. Weak X-rays are observed along with tracks from other nuclear particles.
LENR looks like fusion judging as a chemist might, by the inputs Hydrogen and output Helium-4 and transmutation products. It looks not-at-all like fusion when judging it as a plasma physicist might—by tell-tale radioactive signatures.
Converting Hydrogen to Helium will release lots of energy no matter how it is done. LENR is not zero-point energy or perpetual motion. The question is whether that energy can be released with affordable tools.
Plasma physicists understand hot thermonuclear fusion in great detail. Plasma interactions involve few moving parts, and the environment is random so it's effect is zeroed out. In contrast, modeling the LENR mechanism will involve solid-state quantum mechanics in a system of a million parts, being driven far out of equilibrium. In LENR a nano-scale particle accelerator can't be left out of the model. A theory for LENR will rely on intellectual tools that illuminate x-ray lasers or high temperature superconductors or semiconductors.
Many things need to be cleared up. How is the energy level concentrated enough to initiate a nuclear reaction? What is the mechanism? How do output energies in the MeV range come out as obvious high energy particles? Dr. Peter Hagelstein at MIT has been working hard at a "Lossy Spin Boson Model" for many years to cover some of these gaps.
Robert Godes at Brillouin Energy suggests a theory that matches observations and suggests an implementation. The "Controlled Electron Capture Reaction."
[...]
Hence Helium is produced with the tools of chemistry and without overcoming the Coulomb positive-particle repulsion force. And without requiring or producing radioactive elements.
It is strange that LENR is neglected by the DOE, industry and the Pentagon. But no stranger than the history of nuclear power—if it weren't for the leadership Admiral Rickover, and his personal friends in Congress, nuclear fission power for submarines and power plants would never have seen the light of day. The best endowed institutions rarely disrupt the status-quo.
Progress is being made quickly by private enterprise in lieu of government support. Sadly that means you cannot stay up to date relying on a subscription to "Science." But stay tuned.
the most surprising is not that Carl Page think that, but that his answer was accepted.
Did you feel the noise? less and less strong "reputation trap" for media. 
