I am not confusing anything. In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20532446 you said "Coal plants are air cooled, not water cooled". I simply posted a counterexample. The coal plant is water cooled, and all the other coal plants pictured in the Wikipedia article are also water cooled. You still haven't justified your accusation of this being "dishonest".

>but nuclear uses both

People have already posted multiple examples of nuclear plants that use only one, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20532670