Again, that is not the judgement of most experts and peer reviewers enlisted by funding agencies and journals. Cold fusion results in general, fit nothing as well as they fit the classical pattern of pathological science. Whether it's claims of excess heat from Pd-D or Ni-H, or claims of tritium or neutrons or any other kind of emission or transmutation -- phenomena with sensitivities varying by factors of a million or a billion -- the results (if they have suitable transparency) are always well within the range of artifacts, background, noise, or chemistry. And invariably, when the experiments improve, the effects get smaller. Sometimes they disappear altogether, although more often, the researchers change their approach entirely, embarking on new -- again preliminary -- approaches, where confirmation bias has a freer reign. Garwin called it the "quit while you're ahead trait of cold fusion research".
Mr. Cude might have missed some of the last years... Already in 1994 Arata (Japan) could replicate the Pons experiment. In the following years he published diverse papers which unmistakingly proved huge excess heat. Thus LENR is real since more than 20 years.
Unluckily some few US-based person (who understands the US politics knows about who I talk) decided to follow their own agenda. It is also common DARPA law, that no knew breakthrough science/technology should be public available. (This law was again enforced under pres. Reagen.)
The only “remaining fools” on earth were the Japanese & the Italian researchers. Both countries have a very good understanding how the mafia culture works...
One thing the Japanese published in 2014 (jccf15) was a dynamic hydrogen loadable reactor which already behaved very well.
JCCF16 happened last December. Contrary to other years the proceeding were hold back. This is a clear sign that they decided no longer to play an open game and possibly plan to market their own products.
To sum it up: I think Mr. Cude should stop his “Troll Mission” to black-Write the whole LENR field. LENR is already a thousand times more real that hot D-D D-T fusion ever will be on earth. Therefor the reputation trap will soon snap all the “blue sky dreamers” of hot fusion & fission. I see a lot of work for therapists.
