I have noticed that there seems to be a slight uptick in LENR recently — probably due to some of the reports that have been coming out lately from various conferences and publications where the topic is being taken quite seriously by certain people in business and academic circles.  When you have serious players such as National Instruments getting deeply involved in the emerging field of LENR it is enough to make people who are acqainted sit up and take notice

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Why LENR Will Be Embraced