Tag: Photons

Solar Panels – Why Ken’s Wrong

November 13, 2021January 6, 2023 David Morton Rintoul3 Comments

Solar panels are a topic on which Ken Wheeler declares himself to be a connoisseur. Find out why he's obsessed with solar energy for all the wrong reasons and why his advice would be disastrous for any household naive enough to follow it.

Posted in Gadget HoardingTagged Cherry-Picking, Conspiracy Theories, Electrons, Fake Experts, Impossible Expectations, Logical Fallacies, Photoelectric Effect, Photons, Quantum Mechanics, Solar Panels

Light – Why Ken’s Wrong

September 26, 2021November 27, 2023 David Morton Rintoul3 Comments

Light has been difficult to explain over the course of the history of science. Find out why Ken Wheeler's ideas about light, if anyone took them seriously, would set modern science back by at least two centuries.