My apologies for not doing a little more online research earlier. It appears that this "alternative" hydrino theory, they are calling it "fractional hydrogen" is still quite active, has a corporate identity in that hotbed of high-tech, South Carolina, and even has a (primitive) website.
http://www.amdgscientific.com/ >From the site: AMDG Scientific Corporation is a Research & Development Company named after its founder and scientist Arie M. DeGeus, who discovered novel energy generating technologies, all of which feature 'over-unity' energy production. [unfortunate that by using his initials for the corporate name, they have confused this company with at least 3 others which use the identical name] TECHNOLOGIES After years of research and development, a sequence of ever improving lab set-ups for these technologies has led to the recent start of activities to construct proto-types of various power generating systems. A plasma process, which makes use of a 'nuclear catalyst' and one or more solid metals, converts hydrogen into so called 'fractional hydrogen', the electron of which has lower energy states than the 'ground-state'. Energy becomes available as relatively low energy photons (extreme UV to Soft X-ray). Both heat and electricity can be produced. This process has an energy 'over-unity' of better than 3/1, which was twice certified by Applied Technical Systems Inc. (ATS), of Marietta (Atlanta), GA; report # M 21774. Application: General power generation, typically for industry and where both heat and electrical power are useful. Among the personnel is listed a Joseph P. Phelan. I don't know if it is the same person, but a former Enron exec had that name. More important is what is omitted. I see no evidence that a prototype has been built. Jones
