As said in this article, we have no idea if there was excess heat produced in the LION reaction. We have been told that the LION 2 self sustained for a number of days and we have been unable to produce the same effects in controls to date though there is some similar colour change observations have been seen in Copper interactions with quartz in the presence of air.

Our Hutchison samples show that equivalent transmutations to those observed in the LENR field can occur at room temperature so it may not be necessary to have heat or high heat throughout the process.

The LION author wishes to conduct further testing before handing over prepared cores, so the best we can do is conduct dummy runs, something that is in process.