Science

In general, we often hear from people who espouse ignorance who nonetheless like to make statements claiming authority from "science." Hell, there is a whole group of people who run around shouting about "creation science" and for that matter, a religion called "Christian Science" that has no connection with science.

I would not qualify a person who obviously understands neither finance or engineering to assert a "truth," particularly when one has not a shred of knowledge about what a Brayton cycle is, or the long practiced history of Brayton cycles.

My son is working on a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering and I assure you he would not have been admitted to it if he didn't know what a Brayton cycle is.

Now we have an antinuke talking about "truth" who clearly doesn't have the slightest clue what a Brayton cycle is and yet comes here to make silly assertions about both science and the purpose of nuclear engineering.

I have have often written on the subject of process intensification in this space in the Science forum. Brayton cycles are a key component of process intensification procedures. I can write about these things because I know what science is and, consequently, whether a person with whom I'm speaking knows what it is.

I see lots of folks who are clueless about science here, some honest about it, but wish to know more - which is fine, even great - and some who make assertions about science despite their obvious cluelessness. Most of the latter are antinukes.

I have a very clear vision here, and only remark on it to point up that antinukes know nothing at all about nuclear energy other than they hate it, just as antivaxxers know nothing about immunology other than that they hate the technology.

Seven British nuclear reactors have operated on Brayton cycles, one of them, still operating and still saving lives from the fear and ignorance of antinukes who give neither a fuck about climate change or air pollution, has been in operation since 1983.

Antinukes are nearly always the equivalent of antivaxxers or creationists discussing, say, molecular biology, except antivaxxers can never aspire to the number of people killed by antinuke ignorance.

The death toll from antinukism is roughly 19,000 people per day according to a publication widely accessed by scientists concerned with human health, and the health of the planet, something, again, about which antinukes couldn't care less.