Remember Faraday with his great idea of a physical electromagnetic field, or Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner with the idea of the possibility of a chain reaction of fission of uranium nuclei
Their discoveries involved quite a bit of hard work and interaction with others,
like 4. yrs meticulous work in the KaiserWilhelm laboratories
Faraday Hahn Meitner all had expensive laboratory equipment available
From earlier 'ideas.'. possibilities the path to evidence and recognition by others was not straightforward .
Hahn and Meitner had one advantage... there was a war in the making..
with a lot of. displaced scientists upset from their usual comfort
unfortunately/fortunately ?? LENR is difficult to weaponise??
. it took quite a few decades..and quite a few others for Faraday's peaceful ideas to become working technology