I was hoping that this new discovery would show much tighter hydrogen spacing - in keeping with the various theories for dense hydrogen.
However, the spacing is far from pico and not extremely compact at all, and therefore this may result may not be related to LENR. Fortunately, there is a lot of work going on in superhydrides - and this work aligns with the long-held suspicion that a transient form of superconductivity at greater than room temperature - and the occurrence of LENR are somehow related. Here is a related paper on another superhydride with a massive 9:1 atomic ratio. Ratios of nine or ten to one are possible with high pressure. https://phys.org/news/2019-10-impossible-superconductor.html It is only a matter of time until a breakthrough occurs in this field and the extreme pressures now being used, become superfluous. Terry Blanton wrote: An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for decades — a feature that could possibly facilitate superconductivity at or near room temperature and pressure. https://scitechdaily.com/room-temperature-superconductor-breakthrough-at-oak-ridge-national-laboratory/
