The Cold Fusion Experiment and the Generator left running:

I think it was sheer stupidity that kept that generator running, the critics are right to bring that factoid up. However, if SPAWAR was the buyer, and set up the switches and gauges, there would be 100% confidence in the amount of electricity that flows regardless of whether that generator was running. They could have simply not foreseen the stumbling block, by virtue of their over-confidence.