Actually, you have to give Steven Jones kudos for his cold fusion work. This is, in fact, his real area of expertise. His work is first rate, and his statements that Fleischman & Pons had to be wrong were correct.Well he sole it from the aliens to begin with.
However, when he drifts over into structural or mechanical engineering, it becomes painful to watch. His "the second law of thermodynamics prohibits the building from collapsing straight downward" was a four-star moment in his early presentations to adoring college crowds. Presumably empty of engineering or physics students. He seems to have dropped that revelation in his later lectures.
tom
