• witx@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    The good thing about science is that it doesn’t care if you disagree, it just works the way it does

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      Building nuclear power plants is not a science problem, though, it’s an engineering problem. Just because we can harness energy by breaking up nuclear bonds does not mean that we can do so economically, given the constraints under which we have to operate power plants.

      And OP never disputed the science anyways?

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        23 hours ago

        Also like solar wind and water power also involve science? As do coal plants? So like, really WTF are we even talking about with science “functioning”?

        Edit: Seems like this is just the potato version of the “science is what’s true whether or not you believe it” quote applied to policy…which actually doesn’t work.

        It doesn’t matter whether or not nuclear plants are possible if humans don’t build them. The science backing them existing is meaningless.