I skimmed through it, but he seems to be making the standard argument that it is impossible for this to be a nuclear fusion reaction. Most scientists/researchers in this field recognize this, and a new theory has emerged called the Widom-Larsen theory, which involves adding neutrons to the atom resulting in beta decay and excess heat.
And here is a podcast with Dennis M. Bushnell, NASA Langley's chief scientist, where he discusses the potential of LENR (can fast forward to 8:20 then stop at 13:50):
[04:34] Bushnell: OK -- THE most interesting and promising at this point -- farther term, but maybe not so far -- is Low Energy Nuclear Reactions. This has come out of twenty years of people producing energy but not knowing what it is and we think we have a theory on it. It’s producing beta decay and heat without radiation. The research on this is very promising and it alone, if it comes to pass, would literally solve both climate and energy.
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Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat — the device that purports to use cold fusion to generate massive amounts of cheap, green energy – has been verified by third-party researchers, according to a new 54-page report. The researchers observed a small E-Cat over 32 days, where it produced net energy of 1.5 megawatt-hours, or “far more than can be obtained from any known chemical sources in the small reactor volume.”? The researchers were also allowed to analyze the fuel before and after the 32-day run, noting that the isotopes in the spent fuel could only have been obtained by “nuclear reactions”? — a conclusion that boggles the researchers: “… It is of course very hard to comprehend how these fusion processes can take place in the fuel compound at low energies.”?
