A Blog accusing Mark Suppes' work as being a Hoax.

[paperburn1]

I threw a rock at him but so far nothing back....

[ladajo]

Did you see his response?
He said you wasted your rock toss.

[Stubby]

Stubby on February 28, 2013 at 16:45 said:

why don’t you have a go at Senor Rossi and his E-cat???
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nhspotter on February 28, 2013 at 17:15 said:

I’ve considered that, interesting case, but “il Signor Rossi” covers the secrets of his machinery under some pretended patent approval. It’s impossible to comment or to form a sensible opinion due to the lack of details.

[Jccarlton]

I fin it amazing that, as a physics professor, he had no clue what a Farnsworth Hirsch fusor was. After all they have only been around for over fifty years and for that entire time I don't think that anybody has ever said that they don't produce neutrons. I also find it hard to believe that there is somebody teaching physics with no clue as to how particle accelerators work. Oh well.

[kcdodd]

I don't find it hard to believe actually. But one should learn to know when to keep ones mouth shut if one doesn't know the topic.

[D Tibbets]

I concur that this blog is nonsense. He is completely ignorant of neutron detection possabilities. BTI bubble detectors are actually a very good method for counting / confirming neutrons. They come calibrated, they are immune to the electronic noise that may interfere with electronic detectors, etc.
He has no idea of the magnetic design of the Polywell, He has no idea about fusion cross sections and the possibilities of fusion. He mentions the need for MeV for fusion to occur., despite the fact that this is mostly undesirable, and ignores that mainstream fusion with Tokamaks are struggling to get over average energies of 5 KeV. He has no idea about electrostatically accelerating charged particles and how that relates to temperature. His discussion of glow discharge in a fusor is simplistic and confusing. He has no idea of how easy deuterium fusion is , and no stated appreciation of the significance between fusion, detectable fusion, and profitable fusion.

For instance EMC2's fusion results are potentially ground breaking. But from a neutron detection stand point WB6 efforts were feeble at best when only the raw numbers were considered without time conditions, etc..

Dan Tibbets

[Skipjack]

I concur that this blog is nonsense. He is completely ignorant of neutron detection possabilities. BTI bubble detectors are actually a very good method for counting / confirming neutrons. They come calibrated, they are immune to the electronic noise that may interfere with electronic detectors, etc.
He has no idea of the magnetic design of the Polywell, He has no idea about fusion cross sections and the possibilities of fusion. He mentions the need for MeV for fusion to occur., despite the fact that this is mostly undesirable, and ignores that mainstream fusion with Tokamaks are struggling to get over average energies of 5 KeV. He has no idea about electrostatically accelerating charged particles and how that relates to temperature. His discussion of glow discharge in a fusor is simplistic and confusing. He has no idea of how easy deuterium fusion is , and no stated appreciation of the significance between fusion, detectable fusion, and profitable fusion.

For instance EMC2's fusion results are potentially ground breaking. But from a neutron detection stand point WB6 efforts were feeble at best when only the raw numbers were considered without time conditions, etc..

Dan Tibbets

That was pretty much my own opinion of his babblings as well.

[Stubby]

The page is no longer there. You can still find stuff on polywell though by not Suppes machine.

[KitemanSA]

Guess he got sufficiently embarrassed so as to remove the BS that caused the embarrassment.

This is his statement.

Major restructuring of the blog
Posted on March 11, 2013
Recent comments (either totally biased or respectable thoughts) and a reasonable amount of visitors have made me reconsider the scopes and mission of this blog. It started like a sort of journalist inquiry, but the critical tone brings to the blog nothing more than foes and all sorts of fools. Now it is more like a collection/review of separated scientific topics each of which deserves a different page. The comments will be accepted only if they match the topic of the page and if their content is relevant and proven. This is to avoid having to spend time on nonsensical comments. In addition the modularity will be useful if a certain topic enters into more than one discussion.

Some changes have been made and some new considerations have been added.

[KitemanSA]

Of course, he is still making absurd statements about Polywell in his redesigned blog.

[ladajo]

No, he just re-shuffled and then deleted any dissenting commentary.

http://nuclearhoaxspotter.wordpress.com/003-polywell/

[KitemanSA]

He has greatly pulled back his attack on Stuppes. Not fully, but mostly. He has also toned down his vocabulary. Now he is still technically wrong about a bunch of thing, but not as nasty.