Yoshiaki Arata published something very similar 2 years ago, so he might just be chasing publicity at this point.
Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Ser. B: Physical and Biological Sciences
Vol.70 , No.7(1994)pp.106-111
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A New Energy caused by “Spillover-Deuterium”
Yoshiaki ARATA and Yue-Chang ZHANG1)
1) Welding Research Institute, Osaka University
[Released: 2006/10/13]
Abstract:
It was verified that a new kind of energy is caused by “Spillover-Deuterium” generated in a double structure (DS)-cathode with “Pd-black”. Using this cathode, the authors confirmed the sustained production of a significantly abnormal amount of energy over a period of several months that could not be ascribed to chemical reaction energy. The chemical reaction energy of 0.1[mol] Pd-black used is only 4[kJ], but more than 200[MJ] of excess energy was continuously produced for over 3000[hr] at an average rate of 50-100[kJ/hr] using a DS-cathode with a same quantity of Pd-black. Intermittent operation over a period of two years using this structure proved the complete reproducibility of these results.
Keywords:
Spillover deuterium, Pd-black, DS-cathode, new energy
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JOI JST.Journalarchive/pjab1977/70.106
Thanks Kevmo for both of those replies.