I first thought "oh no!" when I read the title "cold fusion", for which the earliest experimenters may have been little more than publicity hounds.
But then when I saw that the article came from a NASA page, it caught my interest. It seems to me that if an answer to this riddle is ever found, it will be worth all the convolutions it took to get there.
Sometimes though, the research takes them in some other direction where the resolution turns out to be something they didn't expect. One concern I have is whether there will be any byproducts from this that we have to safely store away like we do with fission. (Sorry if that's an ignorant question.)
I'm glad various kinds of approaches are being tried by some serious scientists, whether anything comes of this or not.