Charting the Nickel-Lithium-Hydrogen Workspace; 3,600 Variables Involved (Lookingforheat.com)

its good of Alan to remind everybody to be systematic and document changes in variables

There are two gaps in the knowledge that are major.
1. What set of variables produces consistent NAE(as identified by anomalous heat)
2. What particles/energy forms are produced by the NAE.

Unless the band of spread out hobby researchers can find a STANDARD setup
that produces NAE for 3-4 days in a consistent manner, which everybody can use
then Gap 2 will remain a gap until Big science fills it.

Adam's ppt presupposes some kind of public or semiprivate database that all
can access

Looking back to another band of researchers(who were not hobbyists but professionals)
Rutherford's Cavendish group provides clues to what is needed for success

He was
"a great general in that sense, because if Rutherford got an idea that something
was going to work or that something was possible, all the resources were thrown
into that gap. It was like an Army broaching the barriers, if you see what I
mean, so that I'm not wanting to say I was an important factor in this, but I'm
saying that when things like the neutron or the artificial disintegration came
along, all resources, however trivial, would be pulled in, and I was one of
these things that were pulled in, I would say. That's how it happened."

Unfortunately with limited money(Cavendish had limited money also)
the current efforts by a widely diverse/disperse group of hobbyists
has not much probability of success .

There is no General Rutherford and no team.
The advantages of the Internet are very much overrated.
Best wishes though.