"Publishing your ideas and having someone tear them apart definitely is the idea behind science."
Peer review is definitely a part of science. But not the complete idea behind it. If it were, then slowly the whole field would converge to publishing "safe" ideas so lesser and lesser of it gets torn apart. Because torn apart means rejection of papers (which translates to no research done). The complete cycle of science involves:
1. Understanding the different ideas and problems that are out there.
2. Manifesting a different perspective on the matter.
3. Understanding and experimenting with this perspective.
4. Publishing the result
5. Gaining feedback and talking to people about the results.
6. Continue.
"Better someone nicely points out that his math is wrong and he can change his design."
Exactly. Calling it "nonsense" on a public blog where thousands of people can read it is not the best of pointing out mistakes.
Yes, it makes for good news, and thousands of people will think this is good news, but for anyone who seriously does solar cells, will either find that this is impossible or as the author of this pointed out violate the basics of solar power technology.
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"Publishing your ideas and having someone tear them apart definitely is the idea behind science."
Peer review is definitely a part of science. But not the complete idea behind it. If it were, then slowly the whole field would converge to publishing "safe" ideas so lesser and lesser of it gets torn apart. Because torn apart means rejection of papers (which translates to no research done). The complete cycle of science involves:
"Better someone nicely points out that his math is wrong and he can change his design."Exactly. Calling it "nonsense" on a public blog where thousands of people can read it is not the best of pointing out mistakes.
Yes, it makes for good news, and thousands of people will think this is good news, but for anyone who seriously does solar cells, will either find that this is impossible or as the author of this pointed out violate the basics of solar power technology.