October is here - the month of the scary things. Nanox presents to you the "Clond." The clond is scary because it is hot. But not to worry - Nanox will save the day because it is cold - its proposed photon source extracts electrons using a field of nano-gates. Get it now? What is really scary is that the FDA has already cleared a device by this company (even though Nanox has insisted that it has no plans to commercialize it).
Anyway, Nanox has no functioning device yet, but has redesigned its logo and website, and republished its "tech" white papers. Which would be ok, except that no one at the company (no one who understands x-rays, that is) has bothered reading those papers, as they contain the same old obvious errors and stupidities, proving again and again that the company is a complete fraud.
Let's take a look at this diagram, for example, from the "Hot Cathodes, Cold Cathodes" witchcraft scroll:
The diagram is supposed to show us the difference between a hot-cathode and a cold-cathode x-ray tube. The cold-cathode tube has no cathode cup and no anode for high voltage. The missing cathode cup, which focuses the electrons, is not critical, but the missing anode's high voltage is. See, without high voltage, an x-ray tube cannot generate any x-rays. None. That's far worse than the "electron clond" vs electrons. Oh, and what happened to the rotating anode that was supposed to be needed for the "cooling" of the hot-cathode tube?
Here is a snapshot of the dental tube that Nanox claims CEI is currently trying to make work (but has failed so far, per Nanox Business Update webcast).
As you can see, the proposed revolutionary yet stationary-anode Nanox tube, contrary to the white paper, has a cathode cup and a copper high-voltage anode, and looks exactly like any other CHEAP DENTAL X-RAY TUBE that is available for $100 or so from various Chinese suppliers.
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