Daniel Szumski has an interesting angle on the question of anomalous heat..versus transmutations in LENR conditions.
He believes that the principle of Least Action which is known to operate in macroscopic kinetic phenomena, can be shown to operate in nuclear transmutations.
http://www.leastactionnuclearp…m/articles/heatnoheat.php
No maths in this essay but the maths can get heavy duty... it would be nice to get Mizuno's transmutation data. knowing that heat output was zero.
Feynman had a interesting lecture about the practical utility of this minimum entropy/ change principle applied to calculating capacitance.
Perhaps it might be useful in LENR as Szumski said
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html
Any one prepared to polish up their Lagrangians?