Yup. One of the co-authors is Larry Forsley - who has been involved in CF/LENR research for decades. We can imagine that n order to maintain funding levels they have chosen the (politically correct) posture of not linking the work too closely to cold fusion.
Jack Cole wrote:
You could, at a minimum, say this approach was inspired by all the CF
research.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lattice-confinement-fusion
