For the "Best LENR Science News of 2018", our members chose:
1st place -Atom Ecology Ecalox for gammas/excess heat (Russ George, with assistance from Alan Smith/Martin Moore)
2nd place -Brillouin Energy's Hydrogen Hot Tube reactor replicated by Stanford Research Institute (Tanzella's team)
3rd place -A. Takahashi's (Technova/Nissan & Tohoku/Kobe/Kyushu/Nagoya Unviversities) collaborative study -Significant level excess-heat evolution data were obtained for PNZ-type, CNZ-type CNS-type samples at 200-400℃ (12)
For the "Most Interesting story of 2018":
1st place -Brillouin Energy Corporation
2nd place -Ecalox Atom Ecology/Hydrogen Systems
3rd place -Rossi/Leonardo